{"id":194650,"date":"2015-09-16T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2015\/09\/16\/nytimes-constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution\/"},"modified":"2015-09-16T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:44:02","slug":"nytimes-constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=194650","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Civil War began over a simple question: Did the Constitution of the United States recognize slavery \u2014 property in humans \u2014 in national law? Southern slaveholders, inspired by Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, charged that it did and that the Constitution was proslavery; Northern Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, and joined by abolitionists including Frederick Douglass, resolutely denied it. After Lincoln\u2019s election to the presidency, 11 Southern states seceded to protect what the South Carolina secessionists called their constitutional \u201cright of property in slaves.\u201d The war settled this central question on the side of Lincoln and Douglass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/16\/opinion\/constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/16\/opinion\/constitutionally-slavery-is-no-national-institution.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Civil War began over a simple question: Did the Constitution of the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12756786],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}