The truth is that slavery was illegal in the North, but not in the South. You can't squirm away from that fact. Northerners couldn't make a profit on slavery where it was illegal.
when slavery became UNPROFITABLE in the north (it had NOTHING to do with morality = just MONEY.), the vast majority of northern slave-owners SOLD their slaves (instead of freeing them!) to places where slavery was still profitable.
I'm sure they did. But slavery wasn't banned in the North based on profitability, it was banned for moral reasons. If Northerners didn't find slavery abhorent, they wouldn't have bothered to outlaw the practice.
tell us all that it's BETTER & MORE MORAL to be "invested in" slavery & make money on the "flesh trade" (regardless of where the slaves ARE) than it is to directly own slaves, PLEASE, so we can all see your "selective morality".
It isn't. But the fact that a relative handful of rich, unscrupulous Northerners made money off of slavery doesn't change the fact that the South's entire economy, culture and society was based on slavery.
I'm making no excuses for Northerners who profited from slavery, but that doesn't change the fact that the only reason they could make such profits is because Southern States kept slavery legal.
in other words buying/selling/shipping/trading/breeding/leasing/owning slaves in places where slavery was still LAWFUL (while railing against it's immorality) was better from a moral standpoint that actually directly owning slaves???
and you don't think that the "abolitionist leaders" (who were "so totally against slavery" on moral grounds) weren't HYPOCRITES???
also, the northern states outlawed slavery in the north ONLY after it wasn't profitable there. the DAMNyankee elitists of big business,academia, "smart society" & the financial industries have ALWAYS been TWO-FACED.
face it, Blackacre, you've been sold "a bill of goods" by the PROAGANDA machine out of the NE & you don't even know it.
free dixie,sw