Keep in mind that the self interest you allege is all Democratic party. Only Demos owned slaves. Only they enacted JimCrow laws and fought the civil rights movements and laws.
And, despite the lies you misrepresent there was a morality component. The US was in a quandary since in order to not be in conflict with its premise that “all men are created equal” it had to officially say that blacks are not complete men. The founders knew this could not stand but they had to stay free of Britain.
Once the US was strong enough they rejected the partial man premise, which is a moral issue. Purely.
However, the Democrats never bought into that idea. That is why all of them still consider blacks to be “their property”.
That isn't correct. Something I learned which surprised me quite a lot was that the North, specifically the powerful money interests in the Northeast, were making more money from slavery than the plantation owners.
The revenue brought in by Washington DC and New York from slavery was 60% of the total value of all slave production. The slave owners were getting the remaining 40% of the total value.
72% of Washington DC's revenue came from slavery. *THIS* is why they were so intent on keeping those southern states and *THIS* is why they were so willing to make a permanent slavery amendment.
Only they enacted JimCrow laws and fought the civil rights movements and laws.
This is what we have all been taught to believe, but in the 1850s, Illinois enacted some of the worst anti-black denying civil rights laws that there ever was.
People of today do not understand the mindset of the Northern states in 1860 regarding blacks. They hated them and wanted them kept completely out of their society. They made laws specifically banning blacks from moving to their state or exercising rights that whites had.
We have been taught that it's all KKK and "Jim Crow" and Southerners, but the ugly truth is there was more hatred of blacks in the North than there was in the South.
After the war, it served the self interest of the rich powerful liberal Republican "elite" rulers to protect blacks voting for them, because they were instrumental in keeping the power they had in Washington DC, which they exploited to enrich themselves further. (Just as that corrupt cesspool is still doing today.)
I have had my eyes opened. I now see all this period of history more clearly, and the evidence of what happens only makes me more cynical about the motives behind what was done by the ruling class.
The founders knew this could not stand but they had to stay free of Britain. Once the US was strong enough they rejected the partial man premise, which is a moral issue. Purely.
And these "moral" northern men all voted to keep them in chains. The Corwin amendment (permanent slavery) passed by 3/4ths of both the House and Senate, *AFTER* the Southern states had already seceded.
So please explain to me how voting to keep them in slavery was "moral"?