Slavery and Civil War - What Do Our Instructions Say?

The three commissioners were in an even more impossible situation than the beleaguered governor blancheland. They came carrying official news that the may fifteenth decree had been repealed, and that on matters of race and slavery, the citizens of san domain are sovereign. But as we also discussed at the end of last week, by the time the commissioners arrived, things had settled into a stale mate. The loss of momentum was worrying to the slave leaders because the slave soldiers were starting to get restless.