You must really think you have something here. Yes money was to be made with slavery by some, but others wanted it abolished. The abolitionists won, slavery was abolished, and those almighty power brokers to whom you attribute the power to control everything lost the revenue generated by slavery that you think they tried and clearly failed to preserve.
1852? You are at least 20 years behind the movement to leave.
Completely irrelevant. In 1852 they cited abolition and northern attempts to end slavery as their reason for wanting out, which proves it was about keeping their slaves.
A teeny tiny minority of anti-slavery liberals wanted it abolished, but the vast majority of the country didn't care one way or the other so long as black people were kept out of their states.
and those almighty power brokers to whom you attribute the power to control everything lost the revenue generated by slavery that you think they tried and clearly failed to preserve.
It's amusing that you think the export revenue is the dominant pile of money at stake. It is not. The total export revenue for 1860 was 200 million out of a 4 billion economy.
The loss of the 200 million would hurt them, but what would absolutely wreck them was the Southern willingness to allow competing European products to flood the domestic markets in the US, putting the more expensive domestic producers out of business.
Here we are not talking about 200 million shifting from the North to the South, which would also happen. We are talking about a billion or so in income being destroyed through the advent of European produced replacement products.
Additionally, the greater capitalization of Southern industries would have resulted in increasing domestic competition from Southern producers at the expense of Northern producers.
New York, the Wealthiest city in the United States, would have seen it's trade traffic shifted to Southern ports, and it would have become a hollow of it's former self.
Completely irrelevant. In 1852 they cited abolition and northern attempts to end slavery as their reason for wanting out, which proves it was about keeping their slaves.
You aren't keeping up here. They wanted out in the 1820s too. They were looking for any excuse they thought would work.
Even so, whatever their excuse was, it has nothing to do with why the North launched an invasion into the South. The only reasons that matter are those of the attackers, not those of the defenders, and the attackers were invading to protect their rich people in the Northeast, and not because they cared about the suffering of the slaves which they had been greatly profiting from for the previous several decades.