About 45 years ago in a college history course. In a college library, not on the internet. Factors or brokers are how most commodity industries operate particularly when dealing with small business. They did it back then and they still do it today. Just cause its new to you does not mean others are ignorant of it. The Factors serve as marketing, sales agents, bankers and advisors. And no, The Northern banks did not control the Southern planters and especially not their lunatic politicians. They did everything possible to protect them.
And you are still nuts.
I expect most people go through life having no need to ever learn how commodities work.
The Factors serve as marketing, sales agents, bankers and advisors. And no, The Northern banks did not control the Southern planters and especially not their lunatic politicians.
However you want to make it sound good to your ears, the North was making a *LOT* of money from slavery in the South.
Are you starting to grasp *WHY* they didn't want to let those states become independent?