Emancipation in the CSA?

Spengler

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This thread is not the place for this discussion. This is a thread where the OP is asking for very specific help with a scenario he's doing, not inviting an off-topic tangent/incipient flame war about whether emancipation is likely or not.
This has everything to do with the topic the confederate constitution made it very difficult to emancipate slaves with that line because it said that someone from a slave state could move their slaves into a state that was declared free. This would create a problem for emancipation because it would make it so that you'd have to have nearly every state at once ban slavery.
 
This has everything to do with the topic the confederate constitution made it very difficult to emancipate slaves with that line because it said that someone from a slave state could move their slaves into a state that was declared free. This would create a problem for emancipation because it would make it so that you'd have to have nearly every state at once ban slavery.

The OP didn't ask what constitutional barriers might have stood in the way of emancipation. He asked for the names of people who might have supported possible emancipation within an independent Confederacy. Therefore your response was, indeed, off-topic. If you want to discuss possible constitutional barriers, then why not set up your own thread to do that, rather than posting information irrelevant to the OP here?
 
I changed my mind a bit. I bumped the date in my project back 15 years to 1880.

So... same question, but they had to have survived to at least 1880.

I think pretty much everybody listed would still be a good suggestion, though depending on where you're going with it Jones may not as he was from Alabama. Still, IOTL he was a reporter for the Supreme Court so assuming he holds a similar position in the Confederate Supreme Court he could still be a useful recommendation.

James L. Alcorn- Born in Illinois, but served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate prior to the war and was a brigadier general during. After the war, he was a Republican Scalawag that supported suffrage for freedman and supported the 14th amendment.
 
I think it would have been a grandfathering out process- with the first step being children of slaves being free.

Eventually slaves would grow unprofitable, and that would be the real cause.

Also, I suspect Slaves would be fleeing into not just the North, but also Mexico.
 
I think it would have been a grandfathering out process- with the first step being children of slaves being free.

Eventually slaves would grow unprofitable, and that would be the real cause.

Also, I suspect Slaves would be fleeing into not just the North, but also Mexico.

I think it was Jared who had a series of posts showing how Slavery could be maintained, and stay profitable. I suggest taking a look at that thread.
 
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