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Then why didn't the Southern states just end it, as the Northern states did? What was stopping them?

Northern states had slavery alive and well right past the war (remember, Emancipation didn't free a single Northern slave). The overwhelming majority of slave traders AND owners were Northerners, but moved the slaves to the South because there was no money to made in Northern climate agriculture. The overwhelming number of Southerners were NOT slave owners, nor had any interest in the institution. The North didn't "end" it until AFTER the Civil War, while passing Amendments without legal representation from the states who "never seceded", and without regard to the future welfare of those they "freed".

Does that help answer your question, ye who should know all this already if you read the congressional records included in Durand's book as you said you did. Or our words straight out of Northerner's mouths on the record exempt from the discussion out of inconvenience to your train of thought?

Northern states had slavery alive and well right past the war (remember, Emancipation didn't free a single Northern slave). The overwhelming majority of slave traders AND owners were Northerners, but moved the slaves to the South because there was no money to made in Northern climate agriculture. The overwhelming number of Southerners were NOT slave owners, nor had any interest in the institution. The North didn't "end" it until AFTER the Civil War, while passing Amendments without legal representation from the states who "never seceded", and without regard to the future welfare of those they "freed".

We're not talking about the Northern states. We're talking about the Southern states. The states you claim were forced to accept slavery and, apparently, forced to continue it against their will. Why were they forced to do that? If slavery was so repulsive to them then why not just end it by an act of their state legislature and be done with it, thus freeing themselves of its yoke and telling those vile Yankees to go pound sand? Why didn't the Southern states do that? Instead of sitting back and watching the number of slaves they were forced to own grow into the millions? Do you or Durand have an explanation?

Does that help answer your question, ye who should know all this already if you read the congressional records included in Durand's book as you said you did.

You haven't even addressed the question. Let me repeat it for you - if, as you say, the North forced slavery on the South then why didn't the South just end it? Since according to you and Durand they didn't want it to begin with? That's the question. What's your answer?

“Northern states had slavery alive and well right past the war (remember, Emancipation didn’t free a single Northern slave)”

Yep, the so called “border states”—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland... The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states in “rebellion”.