Articles of Association: 2. That we will neither import nor purchase any Slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the Slave Trade,....
That really put a crimp in my ancestors slave trade.
We instead “hired” the Chinese and the Irish to work on the railroad. We were first in the H-1B visa trade.
The Irish H1-Bs were brought even earlier, to fight the Civil War; the steady stream of immigrants into northern cities simply overpowered the South, which couldn’t replace its losses.