The 2nd is about maintaining slavery only if you're willing to believe:
that the rest of the Constitution doesn't exist;
that all Americans (even Indians, Amish and frontiersmen) kept slaves and supported the system wholeheartedly;
and most irrationally, that the slaves' labor, and its product, were so unimaginably valuable and rare that it would require a perpetually militarized citizenry to compel the enslaved to keep producing to supply demand.
All these propositions are absurd on any level, and can only be accepted if:
you're ignorant of how history, society and economics works.
you're an emotional-thinking reductionist given to seeing all of human activity in terms of race and oppression.
have a politically destructive agenda in which facts are irrelevant.
The 2nd is about maintaining slavery only if you're willing to believe:
that the rest of the Constitution doesn't exist;
that all Americans (even Indians, Amish and frontiersmen) kept slaves and supported the system wholeheartedly;
and most irrationally, that the slaves' labor, and its product, were so unimaginably valuable and rare that it would require a perpetually militarized citizenry to compel the enslaved to keep producing to supply demand.
All these propositions are absurd on any level, and can only be accepted if:
you're ignorant of how history, society and economics works.
you're an emotional-thinking reductionist given to seeing all of human activity in terms of race and oppression.
have a politically destructive agenda in which facts are irrelevant.