> More exactly, I've come to realise that a legal/constitutional arrangement that supports actual human slavery for 70-80 years after having been put in place i

> More exactly, I've come to realise that a legal/constitutional arrangement that supports actual human slavery for 70-80 years after having been put in place is maybe not that great to begin with The alternative would have been forming the United States without the southern states, because they would never have agreed to join. Then the Americas would presumably have been too weak to win the War of 1812.