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In Response To: Re: Slavery in New England ()

Either I am not asking the correct question or the answer is just not there. That being said, below is a portion of what the personI am having the discussion wrote to me. I read it as slavery was only allowed in this country because of the South. Please read and respond. Now this fellow knows of the slave trade in the North, but in 1789 the only southern states were Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, correct? Could they have forced the the other states to accept slavery?

Thanks

GP

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I believe that the constitutional compact of 1789 was one that should not have been entered into by the Southern colonies to begin with. I think it is obvious in hindsight that New England, Pennsylvania and the Northwest territories were joined in an unnatural and unsustainable union with the agrarian slave colonies of the South. Industrial societies can not coexist well with bourgeois aristocracies that shun competition and entrepreneurialism.

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