Part of this dichotomy occurred when historians wrote slavery out of the history of the North. Once slavery was banned outside the Southern states, it was no longer an element of the Northern psyche. Historians erased Black Northerners from the history books along with the Northern slaves, Jansson says.Oh, he'll be called a kook for this. The fact that he is right will not stop him from being labeled as a revisionist. His view and the truthful view of US history just doesn't jibe with yankee revisionist history and what's been forcefed to Southerners as true for the past 130 years