The Northern states benefitted indirectly from slavery just as your family members benefitted from your Father's car. The difference is the people in the North who built vast fortunes for themselves and their progeny trading in the commodities of slavery got to keep theirs.
does the article count indentured servants as slaves? Those who had been put in prisons for their debts, sold as a indentured servant to work at their bondholders discretion until their debt was paid off, with whatever expenses were applied by the court.Doubtful many of those were black.
I was so aggrieved to find out mah fahmily in good ol mississippi was so wealthy, and I am stuck here in this repugnican stronghold, without moneys to pay fo mah families sin. Caint even get a job on ol Haley’s plantation cos I voted for a Jones County firebrand who was robbed in the senatorial election.Ya’ll come see us now.Still almost safe, cos of concealed carry and the castle doctrine, being hows they cain’t put the freemens chilluns in jail fo nuthin, cuz thas rasist, but they at least give you half a chance. And if you live in Mississippi, you know what I mean.
If you dont, come see us when you go to the pettus bridge to march, we ain’ts but a littles ways west of there.We’ll leave the door open and the flag unfurled.
And this is the truth. All the Slave money earned in the Northern states was allowed to remain in their hands instead of being confiscated to buy the freedom of Slaves. Indeed, Northerners traveled to the South to sell their slaves before the Deadlines for Abolition in the Northern states caught them.
Just as Apple uses virtual slave labor to build it's products, so too are modern Liberals perfectly content with profiting from the fruits of their labor so long as they are personally disassociated from the messy business of running a slave production line.
They can keep their profits and their moral superiority at the same time!