Yes, I did notice that. However, no one forced the Northern states to stop using slaves when their economy needed them for cheap labour, plus the part slavery played in their economy when they were actually sailing to Africa to get the slaves, ship them back in horrific conditions, and profit from the sales.
The worst hit the North took was during the War of Independence, when the British, who primarily focused on the Northern colonies, freed all the Northern slaves they encountered if the slaves would join forces with them. (Which makes me wonder what became of all of those former slaves, as an aside.)
So the North already fought a war over it, and I'm quite certain that had the British tried to force the North to abolish slavery at the time, there would have been war as a result. Whether most could afford to have slaves or not.
What I'm really trying to say here is the Northerners were no better, no purer, than the Southerners. There were both terrible and good people north and south of the Mason/Dixon line, with most being somewhere in the middle.
I know I'm about to run out of characters, so will continue in another post.
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Catbookss (13664)
7 years ago
What I don't like is the North's having rewritten history, which is the history I learned in school (North good/South bad), while completely glossing over the fact that it was the North who were the slave traders, and held slaves themselves for two centuries!
Just take your damned responsibility in this travesty, and don't whitewash it. It's just as bad as Southerners' Lost Cause, wanting to rewrite history and turn the Confederacy side of things into a noble cause.
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