I’m sure its hard if not impossible for you to accept that many many people in the North owned slaves all through out the Civil war. When asked about it Grant was known to have said that it was just too hard to get good help.
Deal with it.
Prior to the War, the boundary line between North and South was generally considered to coincide to the line between slave and free states.
IOW, nobody in the North owned slaves during the war, using that definition, although some in southern states that remained loyal to the Union did.
Your claim was that Grant and Sherman both owned slaves.
I demonstrated that your claims about Grant were exaggerated if not false, and asked you for something resembling evidence that your claim about Sherman was true.
You responded by irrelevant remarks about northerners owning slaves. Why don’t you document your attack on General Sherman?
I am somewhat familiar with Sherman’s life prior to the war. While it is entirely probable he used borrowed or rented slave labor for brief periods, it’s unlikely he ever had the time or spare funds to go around purchasing slaves.
Technically that is not accurate.
State action ended slavery in all Union States before the end of the war, with the exception of KY and DE. By the end of the war there were only about 50,000 slaves left in the US, almost all of them in KY.
13A did not so much emancipate slaves as it ended the institution of slavery. Prior to 13A any state could have decided to restart slavery.