[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Yeah yeah yeah, what do they know.

Yeah, I'm sure that YOU know tons more than stupid old Trollope, Fisher, John Adams and George Mason. /s

from Maine were fighting and dying to end slavery.

LOLOLOLOL! Chamberlain (from Maine) said that most of the men he knew were NOT fighting the war because of blacks. Very few in the North cared for blacks. Didn't you see the post farther up on the thread showing how many northern states barred blacks from entering? And haven't you heard of the draft riots up North where numerous blacks were lynched?

(Most of the data I have given in this thread is from a book by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. They cite a bazillion original sources.)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Very few in the North cared for blacks. Didn't you see the post farther up on the thread showing how many northern states barred blacks from entering? And haven't you heard of the draft riots up North where numerous blacks were lynched?

Ever heard of the Underground Railroad?

Most of the data I have given in this thread is from a book by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. They cite a bazillion original sources.

Ah, there it is, better late than never.