Will a successful CSA Abolish slavery?

Section 2 of Article XV goes on to prevent "persons of color" from setting foot within the territorial boundaries of the state.
I agree with the majority of what you said, but couldn't let this pass. In fact, there are reprehensible clauses in constitutions on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

Article XIV: The general assembly shall, at its first session under the amended constitution, pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of colour from immigrating to and settling in this state; and to effectually prevent the owners of slaves from bringing them into this state for the purpose of setting them free.

Article 13 - Negroes and Mulattoes

Section 1. No negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in the State, after the adoption of this Constitution. Section 2. All contracts made with any Negro or Mulatto coming into the State, contrary to the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be void; and any person who shall employ such Negro or Mulatto, or otherwise encourage him to remain in the State, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

Like anti-homosexual legislation, the key is not so much what's written down as how vigorously it's enforced.
 

TFSmith121

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You know, it's funny - you do a search for this language

I agree with the majority of what you said, but couldn't let this pass. In fact, there are reprehensible clauses in constitutions on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

Article XIV: The general assembly shall, at its first session under the amended constitution, pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of colour from immigrating to and settling in this state; and to effectually prevent the owners of slaves from bringing them into this state for the purpose of setting them free.

Article 13 - Negroes and Mulattoes

Section 1. No negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in the State, after the adoption of this Constitution. Section 2. All contracts made with any Negro or Mulatto coming into the State, contrary to the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be void; and any person who shall employ such Negro or Mulatto, or otherwise encourage him to remain in the State, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

Like anti-homosexual legislation, the key is not so much what's written down as how vigorously it's enforced.

You know, it's funny - you do a search for this language, and one finds that the reference to Article XIV is of the Illinois Constitution of 1848, and Article VI is from the Oregon State Constitution of 1857, which are, of course, proof there were color lines in both states in the Antebellum Period.

Shocking, I know.

But if that's proof the rebels - which went to war over preserving and, indeed, extending slavery - would have abolished it at some point (2014? Maybe...) I don't think there are many (including the enslaved, of course) who would see it in that light.

What's also funny about this is if you do that same search, using the same language posted above (absent the final sentence), you find it posted - repeatedly - on various websites, including the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama, among others.

Perhaps there are those who see Murray Rothbard et al as reputable scholars of the antebellum period, but I don't think there are many who do; the interests of Mr. Rothbard and his fellow travelers lay - let us say - elsewhere.

Best to all,
 
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