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[–] creflo 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

Like many, you have much to learn about attitude towards the negro in the Northern states. Lincoln did not have any intention of freeing slaves to travel into Union states. He stated many times that if he could have stopped secession without freeing the slaves, it would have been his preference.

His native state, like many in the North had laws preventing any immigration of freed negros. In the North, there were laws preventing the negro from owning property, signing contracts or accessing the courts. One had a law that no establishment could have more than 3 negros where music and alcohol were present. The owner would be fined and the negros whipped. We're talking about free men AFTER the war.

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[–] 1775865? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I realize that the North wasn't a super happy fun land that rejected racism. People who think it was having considered the fact that Jim Crow probably wouldn't exist in a racially tolerant society.

We like to personify North and South as if they're two individual entities, but there were a lot of different people with different political power, state and federal. The states could say X, congress could say Y, and Lincoln could say Z. Anyone without a degree in U.S. history probably isn't 100% right; the actual narrative is a lot more complicated than the emotionally driven ones we know as "The evil/heroic North defeating the freedom loving/racially oppressive South".