[4CJ]

A slave freed in Virginia had 12 months in which to leave the state or he could be sold back into slavery.

If a BLACK entered Illinois, they had 30 days to vacate the state, else they were fined up and deported. If unable to pay he fine, they were sold into indentured servitude (up to 99 years of service). That's yankee slavery in action. I know it's a "fine line", but it seems like that's the way yankees operate.

[4CJ]

Correction: 'If a BLACK entered Illinois, they had 30 10 days to vacate the state ...'

[Non-Sequitur]

If a BLACK entered Illinois, they had 30 days to vacate the state, else they were fined up and deported. If unable to pay he fine, they were sold into indentured servitude (up to 99 years of service). That's yankee slavery in action. I know it's a "fine line", but it seems like that's the way yankees operate.

So what you are saying, in this blatant tu quoque of a post, is that conditions in Illinois were bad. In fact one might say that conditions were almost as bad for blacks in Illinois as they were in Virginia or every other southern state. I wouldn't go that far since conditions in the south were much worse, but you always were one for extremes. In any case does that accurately sum up the point you are trying to make?

[Heyworth]

If a BLACK entered Illinois, they had 30 days to vacate the state, else they were fined up and deported. If unable to pay he fine, they were sold into indentured servitude (up to 99 years of service). That's yankee slavery in action. I know it's a "fine line", but it seems like that's the way yankees operate.

It's interesting how you guys are always trotting out the northern black codes, but never acknowledge the role of the fugitive slave laws the south had insisted upon in causing those laws.

Despite those laws, though, somehow the 1860 census found that there were over 7600 free blacks living in Illinois.