And if you asked any of them if they would like to change places with a slave - to be bought and sold at a whim, to have absolutely no rights whatsoever, to see their family split up and sold whenever the master wanted, to be beaten or crippled if they tried to run off, to know that they were nothing but property and their children were property and their grandchildren would be property - how many do you think would have jumped at the chance?
I was trying to point out that the real money was being made in the north. It was the textile manufacturers who were making the millions. It was not solely a slavery and agriculture economy, it was a manufacturing and a banking economy as well. And the northern states were bleeding the southern states.
When the war between the states began the factory owners were dependent on cotton from the south. They were very much against the war. As they sat in the Somerset Club overlooking the Boston Common they had the servants draw the draperies so they would not have to look at the Union Soldiers parading on the common.
The people up north weren't all good and the people down south weren't all bad.