But you are trying to number away the ill will towards blacks.

Any slave in the north after Gettysburg should have been freed.
However they didn't abide by the thoughts of a president but
by greed as long as possible.

Being outlawed on paper doesn't mean there are not any slaves.

June 'teeth' goes and proves that. The slaves were released
late in some of the south because of news was slow to come.

Remember the phone wasn't invented yet and telegraph lines were
all destroyed. It was back to horseback.
Many of those smart enough to run a telegraph were dead or run
out of town. Those left were carpet baggers from the north
displaced blacks.

Martin


On 7/9/2015 10:43 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:11:56 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I'm saying the business men, farmers and such in the north were
forced to free their slaves once the Amendment was approved.

Martin

Right, but that was no more than 7% of the number of slaves in the
South. It was not the economic basis of the North's economy. Most of
the northern states had abolished slavery before the Civil War,
although in some states, like NJ, slavery was "abolished" in 1823, but
actually remained in effect until 1865.