[Vlad The Inhaler]

so......we should have agreed to let black people remain in a LITTLE BIT of slavery?

You mean like President Lincoln did when he famously "Freed the slaves?"

Except his Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves in the southern states.

He left it legal to own black slaves in the northern states.

[JimRed]

He left it legal to own black slaves in the northern states.

Of whom there were so few, and the practice was so socially unacceptable that it was dying out anyway.

[BroJoeK]

Vlad The Inhaler: "Except his Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves in the southern states.
He left it legal to own black slaves in the northern states."

Before the 13th Amendment Lincoln had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in loyal Union states.
He could, however, legally declare runaway salves from states in rebellion as "contraband of war" and that's what the Emancipation Proclamation was all about.