>>6389962If so, then please explain the numerous references to slavery and the rights of slave-holders in the Confederate Constitution, as shown in articles such as this one:
"The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired"