Firstly, you really need to understand he meaning of the words “explicit” and “implicit.” There simply is no “explicit” anticipation of the abolishment of slavery in these texts. Indeed, there isn’t even an implicit anticipation of said abolishment.
Secondly, you simply misunderstand the texts. Reread them. They concern the status of slaves and not the future slave policy of other states. In other words, the texts claim that if a slave runs anywhere or is legally carried anywhere, his slave status is maintained regardless of the law. This is language that logically attaches the status of “slave” to the body of the black person so that the status cannot be changed by any change of location or any law in that location whatever it is. The Confederate Constitution aimed to enshrine, in the surest language, the eternal slave status of blacks.
(SEE Article IV, Section 3, Paragraph 3:) "The Confederate States may acquire new territory . . . In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and the territorial government."
The Confederacy had no intention of ever ending slavery. It wished to enshrine it in Constitutional Law forever. It was comprehensively racist, against human morality and most un-American. That is why its flag is widely, and rightly, considered an abomination to people of conscience. |
