And I am so glad yu pointedout it was Confederates who seceeded to promote and keep slavery and it ws the north tht fought to end it
the UN-comfortable (for DYs) TRUTH is that the slave-OWNERS in the north had NO interest whatever in EVER freeing THEIR slaves. until well after the war, they planned to PRESERVE slavery "where it now exists". (further, a plan of operation addressed to Secretary Stanton by MG Benjamin Butler after the war said that Blacks were suitable ONLY for " eternal servitude under the lash" & that they must be forced to perform "voluntary manual labor, under the strictest of military discipline". = sounds like SLAVERY to me.)
the northern slave-OWNERS could have freed their slaves at ANY time. instead, after the WBTS (when slavery was no longer lawful in the USA), they SOLD their slaves to places in the Americas where slavery was still lawful. (there was NO MORE CRUEL servitude anywhere than in "the sugar islands". MOST slaves there lived less than two years.)
the TRUTH also is that you've "been sold a bill of goods" by "your betters" & REVISIONIST historians of the most extreme fringe of LEFTIST academia.
that particular LIE was dreamed up LONG after Richmond fell. (most reputable historians will admit, if pressed for an answer, that "The Grand Crusade Against Slavery" is a SELF-serving MYTH propounded by the ELITES of the Northeast, well after the war ended & it is nothing more than a LIE, which was designed to "wash the hands of northern elitists.)
free dixie,sw
Sorry for the late reply, I've been away. Sigh, since you can't deny the truth of my point, you try to change the subject with allegations of an unrelated point. That's called surrender, my friend.