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> Is that for real, James?
> I didn't know that.

Of course it is.  The Confederacy knew slavery as an institution was 
impractical and had to be transitioned out of.  When indentured servitude 
became 
cheaper and more practical for northern factory work, the slave "property" 
was sold 
mainly to sugar growers in islands.  Most southern states already had laws 
against more slaves being brought into the state.

>From the Constitution of the CSA:
"The importation of negroes of the Africanrace from any foreign country other 
than the slaveholding States or territories of theUnited States of America, 
is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall 
effectually prevent the same. Congress shall also have power to prohibit the 
introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or territory not 
belonging to, 
this Confederacy."

In fact they immediately passed such a law, the very first legislative act, 
which provided in part that anyone brought into the Confederacy would not be 
deemed to be in the status of slave.  Other action made it illegal to take a 
person held as slave out of the Confederacy.  The result was that any person 
in 
the Confederacy who was no longer held as slave was automatically a citizen.  

Most of what you have been taught about the Confederacy is not true.   </HTML>