The North is too cold for negroes

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The cold weather in the northern USA, from the Midwest to the MidAtlantic, reminds me of this strange but true story from the Civil War.

Many northerners were fearful that emancipation would cause a stampede of freedmen to the North, an idea many northerners didn't like. Some people argued that this would not be a problem because, well negroes don't like cold weather. It seems that Lincoln even jumped on that bandwagon. The story is here.

- Alan
 
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