Slavery Question

[Earl Maltz]

It would have been completely impossible.  At all times during the 
antebellum era, approximately 1/2 of the states allowed slavery.

At 08:30 PM 8/21/2005 -0400, francisco martin wrote:
>Do we have any evidence that if Congress had proposed an anti-slavery 
>amendment anytime before the Civil War that it could have been ratified by 
>3/4 of the state legislatures or, more importantly, state conventions?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Francisco Forrest Martin
>President
>Rights International, The Center for International Human Rights Law, Inc.
>
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