[BroJoeK]

Aleya2Fairlie: "The following link is for the many who hold the completly erroneous idea that the Northern states never had a thing to do with the institution of slavery and never owned a slave.
I’ve seen that revisionist lie repeated over and over."

I see that you've been with Free Republic since 2008.
I've been with Free Republic since 2003, and in all that time I've never seen anyone make such a claim -- except Lost Causers like youself pretending someone else said it.

So it seems to me you're just battling against old ghosts.
Maybe you should consider discontinuing whatever drink it is that brings those out?

;-)

Everyone who's studied this knows that slavery in the North was abolished slowly, slowly beginning somewhere around 1777, and even by 1860 there were still occasional black "servants" in such places as New York City.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

Obviously “everyone” doesn’t “know” this. Can you explain what the length of time you have been with FR has to do with what you “know” about the South, or how that pertains to my historical research?

You should “know” by now that personal attacks and assessments don’t prove your point. Quite the contrary, they put a label to you that I’m sure you don’t want.