[DiogenesLamp]

I thought the number was 4.5 billion, but it's been awhile since I looked it up. And that production paid for 73% of the government of the United States.

And they liked it that way. They intended to keep it that way. Hence the Corwin Amendment.

Other sources I have seen claim that 60% of all slave production went into Northern pockets in New York and Washington DC.

So who was benefiting the most from slavery?

[SoCal Pubbie]

The South. There were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States.