Slavery; I figured it would get to this.

George Washington was not the FIRST President of the United States. He was the first President under the present United States Constitution. There were 14 other President of the United States before him between 1776 and 1787 under the Articles of Confederation.

In 1787 when the present Constitution was being written, the United States under the Articles of Confederation was failing, every one of the 13 states then were slave states. Massachusetts may have been the only exception because of a State court ruling but its true effort on the practise is questionable. In any case Article 4, Sec. 2, paragraph 3 (which was repealed by the 13 Amendment in Dec. 1865 after the war), codified slavery in the Constitution (Not as an amendment) as a right of persons of the United States.

Slavery was not just the province of the Southern States. This "New" Constitution was intended as a means to keep the Failing United States under their old Articles of Confederation from dissolving into individual states (Countries). Because not every one of the states agreed with this "Constitution" it was written that only 9 of the then 13 States had to ratify this New Constitution for the old United States to be dissolved.

This meant that none of the 4 southern States (Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia commonly taught to be the reason for the Slavery Clause to be included) had to join. But the one State that had to join for there to be a new United States was NEW YORK. Without New York any new country formed by this Constitution would have been split into two halves. New York in 1787 was one of the largest slave owning states because Slaves were used to load and unload ship in New York Harbor. The largest known slave cemetery is in Manhatten. Again New York was one of the last states to ratify this new Constitution after the new United States had been formed.

Slavery was not governed by the Federal Government. It was governed by the States. As slavery became unprofitable in the North each state abolished it on their own. Slavery in the South was important because of the argicultural nature of the South and was still viable but was becoming becoming more and more unprofitable. But it was still a provision given under the Constitution to the States under the 9th and 10th Amendment.

Again States Right. We do not understand the Rights of States in 1860, the purer form of republic government under the original meaning of the Constitution, because we have lived to long under our present form of bureaucratic Government.