[Heyworth]

The whole point of this was that Southern investments were turning away from plantations and slave labor, and serious improvements were being introduced to allow them to compete with Northern shipping.

So then what did navigation laws and warehousing acts have to do with secession? If those were no longer going to be issues, what was?

[Gianni]

So then what did navigation laws and warehousing acts have to do with secession? If those were no longer going to be issues, what was?

Free shipping at low tariff rates into Southern Ports after secession. That's where this all started, remember?