[JimRed]

He left it legal to own black slaves in the northern states.

Of whom there were so few, and the practice was so socially unacceptable that it was dying out anyway.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

He [Lincoln] left it legal to own black slaves in the northern states.

Of whom there were so few, and the practice was so socially unacceptable that it was dying out anyway.

That would be small comfort to the blacks in the northern states who remained in slavery.

And there were more than just a few although far, far less than in the south.