Doesn't everybody know by now that Northerners participated in the slave trade? So did the other maritime powers of the Western World. So did Southerners, though they weren't building and sailing their own ships to the extent that Northerners, or Britons, or French or Dutch or Spanish or Portuguese were. Don't be the person who pretends he's just discovered what everybody else has known for years.
The vote at the Constitutional Convention was on whether the slave trade could not be abolished until 1808. It was intended as a concession to Georgia and South Carolina (and some sources say North Carolina). The New England states voted for the measure. So did most of the Southern states. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia voted against it because they wanted Congress to have the right to abolish slavery before 1808.
G. Morris from Pennsylvania, on August 25, was rather blunt: why not say that this part of the Constitution was a compliance with… North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia.”
Doesn't everybody know by now that Northerners participated in the slave trade? So did the other maritime powers of the Western World. So did Southerners, though they weren't building and sailing their own ships to the extent that Northerners, or Britons, or French or Dutch or Spanish or Portuguese were. Don't be the person who pretends he's just discovered what everybody else has known for years. The point here is that the Northerners DOMINATED the slave Trade, and thereafter DOMINATED the cotton (produce of slaves) trade. They were up to their eyeballs in profit from slavery, and their main objection was that their profits would stop.
That is why I am preoccupied with this map.
It shows the money coming in, but it doesn't show the money going out. (In the form of Cotton and other goods being shipped to Europe.)
Somewhere i've seen tallies of shipments going out from various Southern ports, and If I can find that info again, and plot their values on the map, I believe it will show the value going out to be upside down of that Map posted above, with the Dominant value going out being exported from the Southern States, while the Northern states with four times the population, were only producing 25% of the total export value.
To simplify the point, the North was making huge profits off of slavery through their control of the import and export traffic and through their control of the laws.
The vote at the Constitutional Convention was on whether the slave trade could not be abolished until 1808. It was intended as a concession to Georgia and South Carolina (and some sources say North Carolina).
That is contrary to what this book is alleging. This book is making it clear that the importation concession was to "New England" interests.