Several years ago archeologists discovered a slave cemetery in New York City. That’s right—New York City.
It was amusing to watch the reactions of the holier-than-thou Yankees when they learned that slavery existed in the North as well as in the South.
Indeed, the much-revered Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in those states which were in “rebellion.”
The ignorance of most Americans of their own history is breath-taking.
Ah yes, the “African Burial Ground.” The skeletal remains showed their bones were misshapen as they had been literally worked to death.
The dirty little secret of when the North abolished slavery was it was usually not immediate manumission giving the slave holders plenty of time to sell their slaves south of the Mason-Dixon line.
That, and it heavily depended on the North winning.