Does the United States really exist?  (continued)
The Constitution of the United States of America prohibited the importation of slaves after 1808. U.S. Const., art I, § 9, cl 1. Slavery was already banned in the Northwest Territories by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This was curious indeed. Ask a pure-trust expert if slave importation after 1808 was legal outside the District of Columbia. For a second, let's pretend that this is a serious issue.

Let's say that its now 1809. We all live in South Carolina, a slave state. On the Internet, we hear about great money to be made importing slaves to slave states. Our knee-jerk reaction is that importation of slaves is illegal under the Constitution of the United States. The slave-importation people tell us this: Slave importation is only illegal in the United States, of which South Carolina is not one. Slave importation is only illegal in the Territories of Orleans and Mississippi. Slavery became moribund in Virginia, but was revived following the invention of the cotton gin in 1790 and the pacification of Indian problems in the black belt of the deep south, coupled with the discovery in 1800 how to manufacture granulated sugar from Louisiana sugar cane where the climate does not afford naturally flowering plants, as in Cuba and other tropical regions. Virginia became a slave-exporting state. Why was it profitable to buy slaves from Virginia instead of importing them into New Orleans (after 1812, present day Louisiana was no longer within the United States, but was one of the united States) from Cuba or Santo Domingo. After 1821, Alabama's port of Mobile would have been an excellent location to import slaves from Cuba and Santo Domingo. Why did history not work this way?

If pure trusts are exempt from taxation under a theory that the federal tax law only applies to money you earn in the District of Columbia, then the Slave-Importation Clause was not effective in South Carolina.

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