When you say he was going to let them keep slaves, do you mean just keeping it as a state issue as it was before? Because that was the issue to begin with for the south. The south didn’t want their people be able to abolish slaves.
Sort of. He would have allowed the contemporary slave states to keep slavery should they choose, but future states out west would not necessarily be given that choice. Keeping slavery boxed in in South was totally unacceptable to southerners.
When you say he was going to let them keep slaves, do you mean just keeping it as a state issue as it was before? Because that was the issue to begin with for the south. The south didn’t want their people be able to abolish slaves.
Sort of. He would have allowed the contemporary slave states to keep slavery should they choose, but future states out west would not necessarily be given that choice. Keeping slavery boxed in in South was totally unacceptable to southerners.