Which is why Richmond is the Center of Finance and Power instead of New York.
No, but it is precisely why Washington, DC -- on the Potomac between slave-state Virginia and slave-state Maryland -- is the United States Capital, instead of Northern cities like New York or Philadelphia.
Those cities were capitals, but Southern politicians insisted on a city where slaves were not just temporarily tolerated, as in Philadelphia, but permanently welcomed.
What you seem to have forgotten is that overwhelmingly, antebellum Southerners loved their life-style and disdained crass Northern commercialism & industrialization.
The hustle & bustle of big cities was not their ideal, while idyllic rural plantation life was.
Even those who had no slaves, such as the Scots-Irish of Appalachia, did not want big cities, what they wanted most was to be left alone in their hidden mountain redoubts.
So it's no coincidence that the archetypal antebellum Southern politician -- President Andrew Jackson, born in the Carolinas, lived in Tennessee -- hated more than anything the Second National Bank of the United States.
He had it destroyed in 1833.
Point is: most antebellum Southerners hated crass commercialists, and certainly didn't want to become like them.
So that a real reason why Richmond is not the US center of finance, and why Washington, DC is its center of political power.