[DiogenesLamp]

Here are some numbers from a contemporary book written in 1860.

Now either PeaRidge, or central_va (I forget which) has a source that is Official US government Numbers, and they are even worse (from the perspective of the North) than those I have posted above.

Perhaps they will notice this message and post the source to those numbers once again.

[Carl Vehse]

Your text image comes from page 73 of Southern wealth and northern profits, as exhibited in statistical facts and official figures by Thomas Prentice Kettel (New York: G.W. & J.A. Wood, 1860). The image does not substantiate your initial claim. Furthermore, Kettel's book is written from the basis of the"fallacy of the theory of black equality" (p. 149) and the disaster of the "experiment in humanizing blacks." Kettel details his basis supporting the South and its economic institution of slavery (p. 167ff):

"A bountiful Providence has those sunny climes with a soil of the utmost fertility, and has created beings whose constitutions are adapted to it. He has not endowed them with intelligence, but they remain in their native Africa to-day what they were at the date of the deluge, an unprogressive and savage race of cannibals. The white has emerged from the pastoral state, and risen gradually to the highest development of the human intellect.... The African, a docile and capable worker was placed in his hands. He educate him in the path of industry, made him useful to humanity, turned him from the worship of idols to the knowledge of the true God, and raised him from the grade of an animal to the semblance of manhood. The 4,000,000 blacks and their descendants now in the United States, have been raised from the cannibal and troglodyte state to a condition far above that of many white men. This has not been done of their own volition, but through the instrumentality of the slave-trade, ministering to the wants of humanity under the direction of Divine Providence."