As opposed to Illinois, which banned blacks.
That would come as a heck of a surprise to the thousands of blacks who lived there. According to the 1860 census, Illinois' free black population of 7628 was larger than the free black population of all but two of the original 7 rebelling states. In fact, Illinois had more free blacks than Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas combined.
And yet the 1860 census counted 7628 of them living there, more than the free black populations of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia combined. Some southern states had laws that forced freed slaves to leave the state or be returned to slavery.
Other than the few groups of abolitionists in the New England states the North had no truck with slavery. The modern history books would have us all believe that the South and the North locked horns over it and the heroes won and abolished it. Problem is for the South it (the expansion of slavery to the territories and new states) was one of many reasons to secede. For the North it was a non-issue. The North made war on the South to preserve the union. Period.
Notice how they slither when you mention that and try to act like it really did not happen.
When confronted by Yankee racism/slavery ..they deny....kinda like liberals do about their utopia.
I just got back from Decatur Indiana at the Lingenfelter plant and I can tell you there are almost no blacks there.
Yet, these same folks wish to tell me who has lived most of my life in black majority communities ....how the world is.
It’s laughable.
Has anyone seen all the new evidence on the Manhattan slave digs....the most recent stuff. Amazing how many slaves came through there.
Shame of those noble hypocrites.
Worse yet, blacks were a tiny percentage of the population up north in contrast to down South. What were the supermajority whites so afraid of that they would actually limit poor blacks trying to come there.....and then to impose all these restrictions on their freedom even if they did let them in? Were they skeered of them....maybe didn't want them mixing with their women....yep....they had their own anti-miscegentaion laws too.
This is just awful.....has there ever been a more hypocritical bunch?
As the abolitionist movement gained steam and escape programs for slaves such as the Underground Railroad expanded, so did the backlash of negrophobia among whites in the North. State laws banning the marriage of whites and blacks, so-called anti-miscegenation laws, were passed in all the slave states and in several new free states as well, such as Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.[1] In several states the Black Codes were either incorporated into or required by their state constitutions, many of which were rewritten in the 1840s. Article 13 of Indiana's 1851 Constitution stated "No Negro or Mulatto shall come into, or settle in, the State, after the adoption of this Constitution." The 1848 Constitution of Illinois led to one of the harshest Black Code systems in the nation until the Civil War. The Illinois Black Code of 1853 extended a complete prohibition against black immigration into the state.