[Sherman Logan]

Slavery being an increasingly losing financial proposition was, of course, why slave prices reached an all-time high in 1860. People are always interested in investing their money in known declining industries.

[Dead Corpse]

Um... Because it was increasingly expensive to own and operate with slaves? There certainly wasn't a scarcity of supply...

Maybe you are right, much better to make a complete mockery of the Republics federalism by going to war... That worked out well didn't it?