To the slave owner yes, but their entire productivity is lower, it's better to have a businessmen rather than someone who can just pick cotton and do basic chor

To the slave owner yes, but their entire productivity is lower, it's better to have a businessmen rather than someone who can just pick cotton and do basic chores. I think capitalism has a hand to play, to ignore it is naive. I think there was not one driver that ended slavery, but many things working together.