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Why wasn't slavery outlawed quickly after the US started? I would expect the free non-slaveholders would vote against slavery, since they wouldn't want to compete with slaves, and they'd outnumber the slaveholders.
For one thing, one of the main groups suporting seperating from Great Britain (especially in the southern colonies) were slaveholders who were scared that the British were going to outlaw slavery (something that they had threatened to do in response to the revolution).
That would explain why they would try to institute a form of government that would not abolish slavery. I'm more interested in how the particular form of government they instituted would not immediately abolish slavery. CronoDAS largely answered that question.