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It's a common misunderstanding / idealization that the north wanted equality for black slaves. A very tiny minority wanted that. To the extent that northerner
by lokar 4y ago
It's a common misunderstanding / idealization that the north wanted equality for black slaves. A very tiny minority wanted that. To the extent that northerners were against slavery (and by far not all were) that was mostly the limit of it. They did not see blacks as equal.
The same pattern applied the 60s "civil rights era", some northern liberals were against jim crow, but certainly did not want blacks moving in next door to them.
- tcmart14 4y agoYup. And is anyone wants further proof of the statement that the union faction wasn't exactly for complete equality, just read Lincoln's statements during his famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. While he was against slavery, he still expressed that white people were superior and would still in some fashion, rule over blacks. And that black people could not govern. He was morally against slavery, but that does not mean he thought the people who were slaves were equal.