No, I get it. I said the reason the Civil War erupted. It wasn’t Slavery, it was the Succession movement. Slavery was only part of the equation.
Remember, Lincoln wanted the Blacks sent back to Africa after the War.
The North benefitted financially from the Agriculture Economy of the South, which means they benefitted from the Slave Labor used in the South.
The issue of Slavery was not the reason the Civil War started. It evolved as the reason in our History Books, but it was not the spark.
What was the secession movement about?
More than most people understand. Imports have to be paid for by exports, and the South produced 73% of the total export value for the United States.
All the taxes came from tariffs on imports, which essentially meant they were paid for by exports produced mainly from the South.
The North was hardly getting taxed at all. With 5 times the South's population, it was paying a little over 1/4th of the tax burden the South was paying.