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    5 months ago

    The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.

    https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech

    Seems pretty clear, I don’t know why there’s an argument.