You got a list of anybody in the North that wanted negro equality?
No. No you don't. Not even Lincoln.
Freedom maybe. Equality no.
No. No you don't. Not even Lincoln.
President Lincoln wrote to the new governor of Louisiana in 1864, Michael Hahn, asking him to consider a provision in the new LA state constitution to allow blacks to vote. President Lincoln said this would help keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.
A year later, President Lincoln came out publicly in support of the franchise for black Union soldiers. That is why Booth shot him.
It is also a simple fact of history that blacks -could- vote in five northern states in 1860.
Walt