[DiogenesLamp]

If the Southern planter decided to keep ownership of his crop, and himself transport it to a port and then Europe, he would indeed make much more in gross revenues.

Couldn't get any ships. Wasn't allowed to use Foreign ships and had to go through the Northeastern monopoly where they priced the carrying fees just beneath the cost of all the fines and penalties he would pay from trying to use foreign ships or crew.

It was a great little racket for the North, and it was enforced by the Federal government. Kinda like all those "vaccines" that are made in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.

I hear Pfizer made 90 billion. Best year they ever had.

[x]

You don’t pay attention to detail. The Navigation Act applied to shipping between US ports, so Southerners could send cotton to Europe on whatever ships they wanted. Indeed most cotton that went overseas did go out through Southern ports. The Warehousing Act didn’t apply to exports, so there was no unfair Northern advantage their either.

[Bull Snipe]

Wasn’t allowed to use foreign ships.

Dead wrong. A British flagged ship could take on a full load of cotton in Charleston and sail to Liverpool England without any problem. A French flagged ship could take on a full load of tobacco in Norfolk and sail to LaHarve France. No U.S. law prevented Southerners from shipping anything in a foreign flagged ship from a Southern port to a European port.
The 1814 Navigation act did prevent foreign flagged ships in intercoastal trade in the United States.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Couldn't get any ships.
Wasn't allowed to use Foreign ships and had to go through the Northeastern monopoly where they priced the carrying fees just beneath the cost of all the fines and penalties he would pay from trying to use foreign ships or crew."

Nonsense! Something like 80% of US cotton shipped directly from Southern ports like New Orleans, Mobile, & Galveston to European customers in Britain, France & elsewhere, much of it on non-US ships!

Didn't "x" already point this out elsewhere?

DiogenesLamp: "It was a great little racket for the North, and it was enforced by the Federal government. "

Nooooooo! Federal law only required use of American owned ships for intercoastal traffic.
So, if, for example, a South Carolina cotton grower wanted to ship his products from Charleston to New York, then that by law must be in an American owned ship.
But, if he wanted to ship directly to a customer in, say, Manchester, England, England, across the Atlantic Sea, then he could use whichever ship he wanted.

That was the law, all your pro-Confederate propaganda notwithstanding.