And what freedom was she being denied? Can you point to anything in particular aside from "practice slavery" (or, to be more precise, "spread slavery westwards into new territory")?
no matter how much you may wish that the damnyankees were intent on crusading against slavery, that is nothing more or less than a self-serving LIE!
to quote Professor Tyrone brown of Grambling University, "in 1860 there was not in all of the nation more than 10,000 people who cared a damn about the plight of the slaves".
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