[DoodleDawg]

It proves quite conclusively that slave money was ending up in New York gentry pockets as well as Washington DC gentry pockets.

It proves that the North consumed imports while the south consumed next to none.

[DiogenesLamp]

It proves that the North consumed imports while the south consumed next to none.

Through the magic of harvesting money out of Northern trees to pay for things.

You understand my point, you are pretending to be deliberately obtuse. The money came from the South. It was not produced in the North, it was taken from the trade produced by the South.

It did not come from magic money trees in the North. It came from slave labor in the South. *THAT* is why the Northern states and their representatives were so willing to pass the Corwin Amendment.

Washington DC and New York were awash in slave money. The war wasn't about slavery, it was about the cutoff of that slave money, and the economic threat that direct trade between Europe and the South represented to Northeastern monied interests.

[DiogenesLamp]

It proves that the North consumed imports while the south consumed next to none.

With magic money produced by their fairy godmothers.

This idea you have that people can "buy" stuff when they don't have money is alien thinking to me.

Things can only be bought with money that has to come from somewhere.

The money to purchase 72% of these European goods came from the South. It did not come from magic money trees or fairy godmothers in the North.