- via tariffs on imports (since it was Southerners doing the importing)
- via unequal federal subsidies for companies and infrastructure projects to benefit primarily the North
which was deriving the most economic benefit from slavery. Their comment was "this was slavery the way the North liked it - most of the profits and none of the screams."
Ditto asked me to explain how the North was getting 60% of the profits from slavery. I didn't feel like trying to explain it to him because he can't seem to understand how the South was producing 75% of the tax revenue.
How the North was making so much money off of slavery is probably beyond his ability to grasp.
LOL. When you can’t answer a question, it because the person asking the question is just stupid. LOL
Tell us how the South paid 75% of the federal taxes. Show us the data.
"Next to the demands for safety and equality, the secessionist leaders emphasized familiar economic complaints. South Carolinians in particular were convinced of the general truth of Rhett's and Hammond's much publicized figures upon Southern tribute to Northern interests." (Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln, Ordeal of the Union, Volume 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950, p. 332)
South Carolina Congressman Robert Barnwell Rhett had estimated that of the $927,000,000 collected in duties between 1791 and 1845, the South had paid $711,200,000, and the North $216,000,000. South Carolina Senator James Hammond had declared that the South paid about $50,000,000 and the North perhaps $20,000,000 of the $70,000,000 raised annually by duties. In expenditure of the national revenues, Hammond thought the North got about $50,000,000 a year, and the South only $20,000,000. When in the Course of Human Events: Charles Adams