Why the very narrow focus? Is it because you prefer to live in a vacuum?
I would like to discuss with you slave states prior to the 1861 war; specifically the slave states of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Rhode Island.
Let's also discuss the slave states of Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. I always like to cast four- thirteenths responsibility in that direction.
I value your personal opinions. Do you think the citizens in all those slave states were entitled to the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Some people don't you know; and if you don't just say so.
Yes, those people deserved their freedom and human rights. So lets look at it.
Slavery ended in the following Northern states: NJ. 1804. The last four ‘’slaves’’,actually four indentured servants were free in 1866.
NY- 1827.
NH.- 1783.
Mass.- 1788.
Conn.1784. Slaves comprised about 1% of the total population in Connecticut at the time. PA.- 1780. RI.-1842 Delaware.- 1865. Slavery was ended in the South 12/18/1865 after a war to end it. The ''narrow focus'' is nothing about prevarication but what the subject is being talked about here. You on the other hand keep running off on relativist tangents trying to steer away from the fact that the South choose a war of secession to maintain the use of slave labor.