Pelosi might as well remove the portrait of EVERY house speaker prior to the emancipation.
Please remember the Civil was not fought (initially) over slaves.
ALL Union states were slaving states.
That is why the underground railroad bringing escaped slaves to freedom went to Canada, because any escaped slave caught in Union states would be re-enslaved.
It is only when the war dragged on, and given the larger population of slaves in the Confederacy, that the Union attempted to cause them to rebel in several southern states by offering black slaves their freedom.
So the FIRST emancipated states were Confederacy states, not Union states.
What is all the BS and history re-writing that says that the Union and the North were not slavers?
In fact the Union states were even worse, they were the slave traders that bought and brought the slaves in ships from overseas, many slaves dying in the process.
We must thank god, that perceptions changed over the war and for the genius of President Lincoln. Grudgingly the Union as a whole came to accept the freedom of slaves and that dark page in our history was over.
Actually, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in all the states formed from the Northwest Territory. This would include Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. This ordinance is actually older than the United States Constitution of 1787.