Let’s see if you will answer two more simple questions. Maybe I can go two for three at least.
First, you claim that Northern interests were skimming profits off Southern agricultural production, mostly cotton, correct?
Second, what was the percentage of that skimming?
Last year I found a source that put it at 40% of the total. I think BroJoeK is the one who initially linked to it, and I found that further down past the point he wanted us to read.
It was an article that focused mainly on New Orleans and how New York had secured virtually every cotton contract that came available.
If you want me to find it, I'll start looking for it, but i'm not going to be in a hurry.