[muawiyah]

For the most part the history of slavery in the North occurred in a different country in a different time among different people.

Slavery in the South, on the other hand, occurred in this country within it's own history and among our own people.

[Paleo Conservative]

For the most part the history of slavery in the North occurred in a different country in a different time among different people.

Slavery in the South, on the other hand, occurred in this country within it's own history and among our own people.

But the slaves in the South didn't get there by swimming across the Atlantic Ocean. The people who settled the South were not known for their seamanship either. For the most part, it was Yankee sea captains and crews who transported Africans across the Atlantic. In 1808 Congress abolished the African slave trade. So what did the Yankee ship owners and captains do? They started shipping opium to China. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather made his fortune shipping opium to China to buy Chinese goods to ship back to the US.

[Publius6961]

Is English your first language?
That is an incomprehensible post.

[Oberon]

For the most part the history of slavery in the North occurred in a different country in a different time among different people. Slavery in the South, on the other hand, occurred in this country within it's own history and among our own people.

How do you figure that?

[GOPcapitalist]

For the most part the history of slavery in the North occurred in a different country in a different time among different people. Slavery in the South, on the other hand, occurred in this country within it's own history and among our own people.

Garbage. Barely 80 years separated the start of abolition in New England and the final abolition in the south and yet you claim they were "different people"? Also contrary to your claims, many northern states did have slavery well into the 19th century. New Jersey did not enact manumission until only 20 years before the war and still had a small number of grandfathered slaveowners at the time it broke out. Delaware still had slaves through the war itself and Illinois had a race-based indentured servitude system that was slavery by any other name. Yankeeland was as guilty as anybody else

[Knitebane]

Slaves were kept in Illinois until at least 1846.

One such place was the Old Slave House in Equality, IL.

I visited it on a school field trip back in the 1970's.