@Liberty_Xtreme@WardoftheStates Yes, and that was a way to try and appease border states to try and get them to join the Confederacy, and curry favor with potential European allies who had already banned the slave trade years prior. The south was more focused on slave breeding by this time anyway.
@PNACstreetgang I mean confederate calvary and infantry kidnapped dozens, if not hundreds of free blacks in southern Pennsylvania and sent them back to be enslaved so I don’t think there’s much room to be pointing fingers here.