To: Mark was here
"So on one hand the North is fighting to free the slaves ... the same slaves the North would catch and send back .."
No! The north didn't catch the slaves and send them back. They hid them in their attics, basements, barns, even built homes with special hidden rooms and tunnels to help them cross the northern states and on to freedom in Canada where the slave bounty hunters by law couldn't go.
149 posted on
03/31/2010 4:23:47 PM PDT by
GloriaJane
(Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
To: GloriaJane
No! The north didn't catch the slaves and send them back. They hid them in their attics, basements, barns, even built homes with special hidden rooms and tunnels to help them cross the northern states and on to freedom in Canada where the slave bounty hunters by law couldn't go.
Why were they being hid? Because local LEO's were obligated under the law to return them, that is way. They were not being hid from bounty hunters. This is not Rocket Surgery here. The war was not fought to free the slaves, it was fought for other reasons.
179 posted on
03/31/2010 4:43:46 PM PDT by
Mark was here
(Fighting for freedom is never easy, especially when your enemies are merely fighting for free stuff.)
To: GloriaJane
No! The north didn't catch the slaves and send them back. They hid them in their attics, basements, barns, even built homes with special hidden rooms and tunnels to help them cross the northern states and on to freedom in Canada where the slave bounty hunters by law couldn't go. It is the underground railroad that you are describing. Actually, the government did catch and return; that's why the UR had to hide.
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