Your examples seem to me to be similar in nature to the examples of Northern troops writing home about their burning desire to fight to end slavery in the South;They don't give an accurate view of the larger picture and are simply cherry picked precisely because they support a position.
It may be possible that your examples are representative, but it would require a lot of work to determine if this is correct or not, and I do not have the time or inclination to go to this much trouble to see.
Also it conflicts with information I recall from other sources.
“Also it conflicts with information I recall from other sources.”
You mean like the other poster you linked? Real authoritative. I think your sentence that I quoted above says it all. Any fact that is in disagreement with your fantasy view of the antebellum South is simply rejected out of hand.
They are not cherry picked. They are concrete, specific examples listed by name so that you can’t say that I’m making things up. You have never in all our debates, posted the name of a single New York banker raping Southern interests, nor any Northern cotton factor buying from Southern planters, with any specifics how they somehow managed to take away all this ridiculously high percentage of profits that you claim. Not a single one.
On the other hand, I have shown you the exact range of percentage charges that cotton factors and bankers charged the Southern plantation owners. All of which were completely reasonable and in line with normal capitalist practices. Yet somehow you label them as evil exploiters of the downtrodden Southern man. Straight out of Marx and Lennon.