The Confederacy was About Slavery

. . . and study Setanta's latest scholarly entry.

if something is indeed historic (as opposed to historical) you can't negate it.

your posts are completely evidence free

That is such a non-fact. It means nothing since the population of slaves was alredy as high as the population of slaveholders and that the only freedom afforded to slaves was the freedom to procreate. BAnning "importation" of slaves assukmes that slavery would die? No, the border slave states saw themselves as "feedstock" centers for providing new slaves via birth.

The actual slave importation language was very specificIN 1808Congress banned the importation of slaves FROM AFRICA only. There was still importation from the Carribean . SO, unless Ive missed something , Im not sure where you and High Seas were coming from on this. As the cotton industry demanded workers, the slave trade grew in the early 1800's and as CI said, there were more slaves than citizens in the South at the outbreak of the Cifil War.

High Seas wrote:

if something is indeed historic (as opposed to historical) you can't negate it.

Why "opposed"?
Something that is historic must be something "historical".

I said that it was a non-fact because whoever started that line was WRONG. In 1820, the only thing relevant in this specific topic was the Missouri compromise which allowed Mo to keep slavery but outlawed slavery at the southern Mo Boundary..... SO, unless Ive missed something , Im not sure where you and High Seas were coming from on this. ....

Re-exportation: The Illegal Slave Trade From Cuba to the United States, 1808-1862

Philip Curtin estimated that Cuba imported almost 500,000 slaves between 1811 and 1870 (The Atlantic Slave Trade,1969). His curious bracket has no chronological significance since both the start and end dates reflect no pivotal historical occurrences within the slave trade. We are primarily concerned with the history of the illegal slave trade to the United States via Cuba, which began on New Year's Day, 1808, when the U.S. Congress prohibited the importation of slaves from Africa. To clarify the importance of slave trafficking to Cuba in relation to the re-exportation of slaves to the U.S., our analysis of the time-line necessarily extends to 1865. The ending of the American Civil War tends to obscure the almost total decline of slave importations to Cuba in this year, an oversight obviated even more by the tremendous peak year of African slave imports to Cuba in 1859. This is an interrelated phenomenon that has not been properly addressed in the endlessly stultifying scholarship on African slave demographics for the antebellum U.S. If we are to believe data provided by the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Curtin's numbers are significantly off the mark in calculating imports to Cuba in the 19th century. The database increases the number to more than 713,000 disembarked in Cuba between 1808 and 1865. Nearly a quarter of a million slaves imported to Cuba in these periods were not accounted for by Curtin or his protégé David Eltis, whose estimates inform nearly all recent scholarship on Cuban slave demographics.

You are starting to sound like Donald Trump. Ive shown you that in 1820 the Missouri Compromise was the issue. Then when I corrected you about the 1808 Act to ABolish slaves from Africa, you deny that slaves werent imported from the CAribbean. Well sir, part of the 1808 AQct was the "CONTROL" (not the ban) of "coastwise Slave trade' this levied fees per slave and controlled the ships handling slaves coatally aqnd (some were from the Caribbean Islands) Even so, slaves were constantly being imprted despite the 1808 spoecific law. Perhaps youve heard of the cases involving the ships Creole, and la Amistad These slave revolts occured in 1837 and 1841 ( respectively [-1]).

I will concede that the population of whites was a bit higher than the population of slaves, but not by much.

Distribution of slaves
Percentage of slaves in each county of the slave states in 1860
Census
Year # Slaves # Free
blacks Total
blacks % Free
blacks Total US
population % Blacks
of total
Year......#Slaves...#Free....Total blacks...%Free...blacks...Total US...$blacks
1790 697,681. 59,527 757,208 7.9% 3,929,214 19%
1800 893,602 108,435 1,002,037 10.8% 5,308,483 19%
1810 1,191,362 186,446 1,377,808 13.5% 7,239,881 19%
1820 1,538,022 233,634 1,771,656 13.2% 9,638,453 18%
1830 2,009,043 319,599 2,328,642 13.7% 12,860,702 18%
1840 2,487,355 386,293 2,873,648 13.4% 17,063,353 17%
1850 3,204,313 434,495 3,638,808 11.9% 23,191,876 16%
1860 3,953,760 488,070 4,441,830 11.0% 31,443,321 14%
1870 0 .... 4,880,009 4,880,009... 100% 38,558,371 13%
Source:"Distribution of Slaves in US History". Retrieved 2010-05-13.

Looks like close to four (4) million slaves in 1860.