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"Jamestown Virginia had the first slaves in North America in 1619... I.e. my friend, there were slaves in the "south" before there were even any white people in the north"

Ah!! Word games. I love it.

Are you saying that Virginia, in 1619, was part of the Confederacy? Is that what we are pretending?

Slavery was nurtured, invested in, and profited from by the Union before there was even such a thing as the Confederacy.(the "south" is a point on a compass, and did exist at Jamestown: the "South" was the Confederacy, and did not exist at Jamestown)

"Name one NORTHERN state that had slaves after those in the South were freed. Just one! And exactly what law freed slaves in the south?"

Pennsylvania. If I'm lieing, does it matter. Would it still matter if you find I'm telling the truth?

Do your own studying. At least, start with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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Slavery was nurtured, invested in, and profited from by the Union before there was even such a thing as the Confederacy.(the "south" is a point on a compass, and did exist at Jamestown: the "South" was the Confederacy, and did not exist at Jamestown)

Ah.... more word games. By the Union do you mean states such as South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, or is Union just those damnyankees?

Pennsylvania, abolished slavery in 1780, before the United States had even officially won it's freedom Before then, the British refused to allow any colonies to abolish slavery. The slave trade was a major source of revenue for the Crown.