The Confederate Constitution also explicitly preserved slavery: > Article I Section 9(4) > No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairin

The Confederate Constitution also explicitly preserved slavery: > Article I Section 9(4) > No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed. And, unsurprisingly, the politicians of the time were much less saccharine about states' rights and other garbage, like the guy who said: "We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel." This is all from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitutio...