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The states really screwed this up when certain ones decided their love for cotton and hatred for brown people was more important than their sovereignty.

• pyuser583 5y ago
  The federal government had no problem with slavery. It was clearly enshrined in the Constitution.
  • int_19h 5y ago
    Slave states complained that the feds weren't doing enough to force the free states to abide by the fugitive slave laws, to give one example.