And here is that cognitive dissonance again.
The people with money buy the goods. The demand may have come from Charleston, but the goods were dropped off in New York, and then an American coastal packet delivered them to the people who bought them, while taking a larger than warranted delivery charge.
New York was cleaning up both directions.
Then who took the cotton from Southern ports to Europe? U.S. ships?
I would imagine it was both American ships and Foreign ships, but probably mostly American ships.
How? Imported goods came into New York but exports left the Southern ports, not New York.
I would imagine it was both American ships and Foreign ships, but probably mostly American ships.
Foreign or U.S., it would make more sense for those ships to arrive at the Southern ports loaded with those imported goods you claim the South demanded rather than arrive empty. The only reason for doing to do so is there wasn't any demand for the imports.