Funny that for a thing that "it was less about" they dealt with the subject of slavery right in Article I of the Confederate Constitution.
Article I Section 9(1)
The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Well, at least they restricted the source of negro property to negros that were bred on US soil. How nice. Don't think for a moment that this was anything other than a political move to try and satisfy and gain legitimacy with foreign nations that they desperately needed to recognize them as a legitimate country. Much like what happens in the UN today. (edit- IOW, if the rest of the world wasn't going to buy their goods, mainly agricultural items like tobacco, cotton, etc. there would be no base for their economy and the Confederacy would shrivel up and die. They had to avoid a boycott at all costs)
So, again, this was nothing but a political fig leaf, a promise to the nations outlawing slave trade that they were going to disengage from the international trade system but with the clear intention to maintain it here.
Article I Section 9(2)
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.
You're either part of the club or not. Don't join the Confederacy and your right to own people as property could be in jeopardy via those pesky Northern Aggressors!
Article I Section 9(4)
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
Speaks for itself I think.
Moving on to Article IV ...
Article IV Section 2(1)
The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
Again, speaks for itself.
Article IV Section 3(3)
The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several states; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form states to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress, and by the territorial government: and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories, shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the states or territories of the Confederate states.
It doesn't get any better when you look at the individual Confederate State's constitutions or quotes of their politicians like the dude who created their Union Jack or gave speeches detailing exactly what they were pissed about most. Like Robert Smith who represented Alabama in the Confederate Congress and a high ranking officer in the Confed-Army for instance who gave this speech (he was happy as shit that the Confederate Constitution didn't "pussyfoot" around like the US one did and explicitly spoke of the negro and slavery rights) ...
We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel. Now, is there any man who wished to reproduce that strife among ourselves? And yet does not he, who wished the slave trade left for the action of Congress, see that he proposed to open a Pandora's box among us and to cause our political arena again to resound with this discussion. Had we left the question unsettled, we should, in my opinion, have sown broadcast the seeds of discord and death in our Constitution. I congratulate the country that the strife has been put to rest forever, and that American slavery is to stand before the world as it is, and on its own merits. We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution. We have sought by no euphony to hide its name. We have called our negroes 'slaves', and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property.
I could do this all day and it doesn't get any better for the revisionists.
