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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not only was the was about maintaining chattel slavery but, also about expanding it. Banning slavery in new territories really pissed the slavers off. Like other hyperstratified socioeconomic structures, it was unsustainable without expansion and the slavers were well aware of this.