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Originally Posted by Cen1aur 1963
Your whole premise is wrong. Blacks in the north were already free. I'm not saying they were equal in rights, but they were free. Whites in the North were already being paid wages for the work that they were doing. The mere idea of bringing in free labor to replace workers that are paid would have been as destructive to the nation as the succession of the South was.
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They weren't always free. There were a number of northern states in which folks owned slaves prior to their state abolishing slavery.