Given that the Mason-Dixon Line forms the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Delaware, then at the beginning of the rebellion only Delaware, a small part of Virginia (later West Virginia) and about a third of Missouri were the only slave-owning parts of the country north of that line. Every other slave holding state, all 15 states in whole or part, were south of it.
"In fact at the begining of the war there were more slave owning States north of the Mason-Dixie than to the south of it."
Given that the Mason-Dixon Line forms the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Delaware, then at the beginning of the rebellion only Delaware, a small part of Virginia (later West Virginia) and about a third of Missouri were the only slave-owning parts of the country north of that line. Every other slave holding state, all 15 states in whole or part, were south of it."
Ummm, I do believe you're responding to the wrong person. I didn't post this.