You forget that the north greatly profited from the institution of slavery, while bearing none of the consequences. ALL those slave ships that disgorged thousands of Africans, (sold to them by their own kinsman) on the American continent were owned by Northerners. Once laws were passed prohibiting further importation of slaves, they became abolitionists. Yankees make me ill, such hypocrisy! Many of the wealthiest New England families owe their wealth to the slave trade.
If we're talking about the southern slave states, wasn't it the governments of those states that fought for slavery? When you we're talking about "the north," is that also to mean the government of the northern states, too, or just specific business interests within those states?
I want to be sure that we're comparing apples-to-apples when speaking of "the north" versus "the south."
-PJ
Hmmmm...just like the present border crisis....
https://about.bgov.com/news/what-to-know-in-washington-ngos-draw-gop-ire-over-migrant-aid/
Another version of the Federal Laundromat......just like the Ukraine war....the money gets recycled back to the Big Guy and Congress....and for some reason the problem just never gets solved.....until it’s big enough to cause a war
“After the Revolution, merchants in Rhode Island may have controlled 60 to 90 percent of the African slave trade in the United States, which outlawed importation of slaves in 1807.”
“You forget that the north greatly profited from the institution of slavery, while bearing none of the consequences...”
They are bearing the consequences now.