It's been beaten to death on another thread. I think RustBucket is the one that pointed it out, but it might be someone else.
I think I know how to find that thread where it was discussed, but i'm not going to do it right now. Ask me again later down the road when I'm not busy responding to the current discussion.
Almost all harbor improvements to Southern ports was paid for by the United States Government.
There is that "Front side of the Horse" versus the "back side of the horse" argument again. As the Southern states were paying 80% of the taxes, they easily covered the costs of all money spent on improving Southern Ports, and Northern ones too! :)
Your fantasy scenario of millions being poured into Southern port facilities is just that a fantasy.
Really? Well perhaps you can explain then why the Confederacy would still have their 200 million dollars in import value continue going to New York instead of to their own ports? I'd like to hear this one.
I raised the issue on a prior thread. You were unable or unwilling to substantiate your claim then either. You can rest assured that every time you claim Government subsidization of Northern railroads or shipping activity, I will ask for the legislation that authorized that action.
I will also continue to use the statistics on the slave trade from “slavevoyages.org” every time you make the claim that Northern ships carried all the slaves to the Western Hemisphere.
“I’d like to hear this one” Because the Confederacy lost the war and ceased to exist. Any nattering about what the Confederacy might have done if they had not lost the war is in the realm of pure speculation. I can speculate that if they went their own way. that the 200,000,000 would have been spent to buy more slaves and land to grow more cotton and tobacco. That money would not have been spent to improve harbors, expand the railroad system, build steel mills, textile factories or shipyards. Chattel slavery would have continued on until into the early twentieth Century.