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Way to make assumptions. Slavery was ILLEGAL in the North. Bias against other races wasn't, of course, and it still ran rampant.
I have plenty to reply to, but I'd like to point out this blatantly false and either severely misguided or extremely idiotic statement. Slavery wasn't made illegal until after he Civil War. Some states made slavery illegal, but it wasn't really enforced, and there was no nation-wide ban on slavery until well after the Confederacy broke off.