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When would the Confederacy have abolished slavery?

vesper said:
The earliest groups I can find that publically protested against slavery were Quakers, Mennonites, and Evangelicals in the Northern colonies/states. The names of preachers and ministers are among some of the first Abolitionist movements. I would classify these folks as Social Conservatives.
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Not Quakers. Quakers tend to be pretty liberal. But the southerns who were pro-racist after the Civil War were certainly conservative. Their values matched the politics of conservatives.

Black's Klan involvement did not come up in the initial Judiciary Committee deliberations. His name cleared the committee but on the day of Senate debate over his nomination was met with a concerned group of blacks. The Negro physicians of the National Medical Association adopted a resolution protesting Black's appointment, proclaiming the appointment noxious to the entire country as well as to the black race.
It wasn't until Black was sworn in did the public know of his past involvement with the KKK. It was a reporter that broke the story and public opinion turned on Black. And after that it pretty much nixed FDR's attempt to reform the Supreme Court. Cartoons like the one below started showing up in newspapers across the county.

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However through his time on the bench he did turn out to be a pretty strict originalist to the text of the Constitution.
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I stand by my previous statement. Black had disavowed the KKK and he was a champion of civil rights. His being a member of the KKK and nominated by FDR is completely irrelevant to the point you were trying to make.



There was but a handful of Republicans that were elected to Congress from the South.
The Democrats had a majority in both houses of Congress. They had a super majority, 2/3 majority in the Senate and allowed the Senate Democrats to override a veto, convict and expel certain officials, or invoke cloture without any votes from Republicans.

Yes more Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act because there were a heck of a lot more of them in Congress than Republicans. But if you look at the percentage of the number of Republicans that were serving in the House and the Senate, you find a constant 80-82% that voted for the Civil Rights Act throughout the process. In the original House version, almost 100 Democrats voted against it and in it's final vote still 91 Democrats voted against it. If it were not for the constant 80% of Republicans serving supporting the bill it never would have passed.
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You identify that problem with looking at the numbers by percentages alone; both chambers were dominated by Democrats. That's why one must look at the numbers split, sectionally. There is no question that northern states were going to vote FOR the Act and that southern states were going to vote AGAINST the Act. But look at how that happened. Why did a smaller percentage of Republicans support the Act in both the North and the South?
 
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