where could i read more about the northeastern power brokers and the slave revenue? I'll have to find you some links. It's been so long since anyone asked me for sources and information that I stopped keeping track of it some years ago.
I can think of one source right away. There is a book called "Southern Wealth and Northern Profit", and it was written by a New Yorker named "Prentice Kettle." It shows exactly where all the money came from and where it went.
It was written in 1860, and so it was before anyone could rewrite history to favor one side or the other.
Now i'll warn you, the book is very racist and dated, so some of the things it covers will offend modern sensibilities, but the economics and math it lays out are thorough and accurate.
Also there is the official record. It shows the same numbers.
To give people a better idea of what was going on, I often post this map. (Which is misleading, but not when you understand what is going on.)
See that pile of coins over New York representing trade with Europe? 72% of the trade with Europe came from the South. New York got the money.
The poster has made a specious claim. There were actually no northern “power brokers” and the few “investors” one can find are very limited and mostly from IL., although one does stand out- Chief Justice John Marshall did fund the some of the southern slave traders, but he was a Virginian and prob did so to increase his influence. A true politician.
(Marshall, interestingly, was responsible for the Marbury decision, which allowed the SC to jump its Constitutional limitations re: jurisdiction, and lets them decide which cases are within their purview. Cultural “change agents” have used this to its full extent, i.e. Roe)
ALL the financial gain was held by the sellers and owners of slaves, one of the biggest plantation owners was a black man named Anthony Johnson, but his wealth didn’t come just from his plantation’s crop yields- they came from his practice of “breeding” his slaves for sale.
The determination to hold on to this wealth was one of the biggest factors in the Civil War.