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Originally Posted by Azure
What is worse? Slavery, or murder? Murder sanctioned by the government?
Your version of the civil war is completely screwed up starseed.
There were slaves in the North as well. In fact, a lot of the Union government officials, including Lincoln himself, grew up in slave owning families.
But hey, keep your romantic view of the North. The rest of us will stick with reality.
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The Jim Crow society and strict segregation that most people think it was first created in Mississippi and other southern states...in fact they were created in the Northern cities before the Civil War.
In the Northern states, Blacks were either denied admission to or they were segregated in, hotels, restaurants, theaters and other public facilities. Blacks had limited work, social mobility and educational opportunities. They were often denied access to public transportation in cities, and allowed on trains only in "Jim Crow" segregated cars. They were outright denied basic civil rights, such as voting rights and the right to testify in court in many states, thus leaving them open to attack by racist and violent mobs, and to being caught and sold by slave catchers. Black men and women in general were often attacked in the streets, and until the Civil War, black churches, schools and homes were looted and burned in riots in major cities all across the North.