[lentulusgracchus]

The North could not make money from slavery and was against it.

Au contraire, the North made one hell of a lot of money in the slaving business. Whose bottoms do you think all those slaves came to the New World in? A lot of the ships came from Boston, Salem, Providence, and Fall River.

[AlanD]

The importation of slaves into this country was illegal by 1840. I am talking about the period around 1860.