[DiogenesLamp]

I have found that site to be an informative resource. Often times they will talk of having abolished slavery, yet when you look you find there were still slaves in Northern "free" states.

I guess some freed slaves were more equal than others.

[Pelham]

Emancipation in the North wasn’t the quick and angelic process that people today like to pretend it was. And it was often accompanied by black code laws that discouraged free blacks from settling in the North. Lincoln’s own home state of Illinois had antebellum black codes.