Slavery was already occurring, so NOT splitting from Britain was ALSO a decision to allow it to occur. Many wanted the split from Britain to cause slavery to e

Slavery was already occurring, so NOT splitting from Britain was ALSO a decision to allow it to occur. Many wanted the split from Britain to cause slavery to end. Nobody was proposing that it begin. Southern colonies insisted that they were going to continue slavery. If the north agreed to leave slavery unchanged, they would go along with the split, allowing other changes, and they would keep slavery. If not, they would not cooperate, there would be no split, no other changes, and they would keep slavery. Either way, slavery would remain unchanged. The decision to leave slavery unchanged did not "allow slavery to occur".