Of the 1800 or so slaves in Delaware at the beginning of the war, only a couple of hundred were left in bondage at the end of the war--most had run off and joined the Union Army. And Delaware's continuation of the institution had a whole lot more to do with the obstructionism of a portion of the population of the state than with anything the North in general felt about the situation. Ironically, States Rights was what kept slavery persisting in Delaware.
http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/cw/delaware.htm
every time i point out damnyankee lies, hypocrisy & hatefullness, some apologist for the damnyankees says that in so many words "that it really wasn't THAT bad" or "we just couldn't help ourselves".
damnyankees make me gag.
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