There already existed a slave base economy ruled by a tiny elite. What you don't seem to grasp is the fact that the elite which was ruling things was in New York. Same as today.
The South challenged that rule, thinking they could own that economy. The elite of New York demonstrated to them that this wouldn't be permitted.
They could have slavery. They could not have economic independence from their North Eastern masters.
“There already existed a slave base economy ruled by a tiny elite. What you don’t seem to grasp is the fact that the elite which was ruling things was in New York. Same as today.
The South challenged that rule, thinking they could own that economy. The elite of New York demonstrated to them that this wouldn’t be permitted.”
Actually the NY banking elite was sympathetic to a slave based economy and secession.
August Belmont, the Chairman of the Democrat Party, was an international banker and an agent of the Rothschild banks.
The people concerned about a slave based economy were primarily Christians and the farmers and tradesmen of the north and Midwest.
The Washington elite at the time were sympathetic to slavery and secession.
The question was whether we would have a slave based economy in the Midwest and west or a free enterprise economy.
The Republican Party was founded in the Midwest and that was its base.