In round numbers? We had just under 4 million. About 3.6 million of which were living in states that were rebelling against the federal government.
I’m just saying...slavery went on in the North as well as the agricultural South.
But the Northern states didn't feel the need to launch a rebellion to protect slavery.
And President Lincoln failed to free them there. What year was that? Let me see.....
The South rebelled and tried to secede. The North has basically overthrown the government our Founders gave us in bits and pieces by subverting it from within. Starting with the 14th Amendment, and continuing to this day with its leftism, Political Correctness, election of anti-American politicians, and general disregard for the United States Constitution. Not all Notherners, obviously, but enough that anti-American, anti-U.S. Constitution politicians like Kennedy, Kerry, Spitzer, Hillary, Schumer, Obama, Durbin, and many others are the norm up there.
No area is completely immune from this self-immolation, but just about any suicidal movement in our history can be traced to the Northern States or to “northernized” areas such as the West Coast. Political Correctness, abortionism, the gay agenda, anti-American and anti-war movements, sociological jurisprudence, softness on crime, gun control, multiculturalism. You name it.