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Slavery wasn’t really that profitable outside of the cotton belt, though. Yes there were still slaves in the North until the early to mid 1800s but it’s not cle
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Slavery wasn’t really that profitable outside of the cotton belt, though. Yes there were still slaves in the North until the early to mid 1800s but it’s not clear that its impact on the economic prosperity of those states was ever particularly significant.
> not all the wealth built on slavery in the Confederacy was
Not to say that even the free states in the Northeast massively benefited economically from the cotton trade in the decades that preceded the war.
- WalterBright 3y agoWhen the South split from the Union, the Northern states continued to prosper and way outproduce the South. It's wealth was obviously not based on Southern slave cotton.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoThe growth it experienced over the several previous decades was accelerated by it to some extent.