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6 mei 2011 19:48 |
Engeland verbood het niet op aanstalten van de Zuiderlingen, je hebt me verkeerd verstaan.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government:
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/wor..._files=1712752
Citaat:
It is well known that, at the time of the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, African servitude existed in all the States that were
parties to that compact, unless with the single exception of
Massachusetts, in which it had, perhaps, very recently ceased to exist.
The slaves, however, were numerous in the Southern, and very few in the
Northern, States. This diversity was occasioned by differences of
climate, soil, and industrial interests--not in any degree by moral
considerations, which at that period were not recognized, as an element
in the question. It was simply because negro labor was more profitable
in the South than in the North that the importation of negro slaves had
been, and continued to be, chiefly directed to the Southern ports.[1]
For the same reason slavery was abolished by the States of the Northern
section (though it existed in several of them for more than fifty years
after the adoption of the Constitution), while the importation of slaves
into the South continued to be carried on by Northern merchants and
Northern ships, without interference in the traffic from any quarter,
until it was prohibited by the spontaneous action of the Southern States
themselves.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/wor...2752&pageno=19
Citaat:
The Constitution expressly forbade any interference by Congress with the
slave-trade--or, to use its own language, with the "migration or
importation of such persons" as any of the States should think proper to
admit--"prior to the year 1808." During the intervening period of more
than twenty years, the matter was exclusively under the control of the
respective States. Nevertheless, every Southern State, without
exception, either had already enacted, or proceeded to enact, laws
forbidding the importation of slaves.[2] Virginia was the first of all
the States, North or South, to prohibit it, and Georgia was the first to
incorporate such a prohibition in her organic Constitution.
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Dat Georgia al voor de revolutie de import van slaven poogde te verbieden heb ik ook uit dit boek, maar ik ga mijn papieren versie er eens op naslaan, want het is toch gemakkelijker daar in the zoeken dan online in de txt versie |
