If the shipping fees charged by Northern interests were so onerous, would Southern plantation owners and shipping companies NOT gone to the shipyards and asked them to start building ships to carry cotton across the Atlantic?
I think this is a case where my grasp of history serves me better than your grasp of history serves you.
I guess you've never heard of "Standard Oil."
709 posted on 08/16/2021 12:39:25 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")