How specifically was Ariosto race misstating the state of race relations in the North during the 1850s?
Blacks could vote in Massachusetts before the Civil War, and the state banned segregated schooling in 1855.
Massachussetts isn't all of the North, but apparently this is equivalent to slavery?
Plus, pop quiz, which states allowed blacks to vote after the Fourteenth Amendment, and which states witnessed a paramilitary movement designed to disenfranchise newly freed slaves?