[eat_veggies]

Slavery created the wealth that made industrialization in the north possible, and was the basis of the economic machine that you speak of.

You've reduced slavery to a parenthetical. Where do you think the cotton and tobacco went? Where do you think the money came from? Where do you think it got spent?

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...

[WalterBright]

Here's why that's wrong. When the Confederacy seceded, the economy of the South slid into ruin. The economy of the North thrived.

The Rebel army was barefoot, because Southern industry could not even make shoes. The reason that Lee was in Gettysburg was to loot the shoe factory at nearby Harrisburg.

Where were the industries in the South? Where were the industries in South America? Why did the South secede to protect their economy from the North?

> was the basis of the economic machine that you speak of

The Civil War destroyed what there was of the Southern wealth, literally burning it to the ground.

"made the South its most prosperous region"

That's just nonsense. Take a look at contemporary photos and paintings of the North and South before 1865, and you'll see the stark difference in prosperity. Railroads latticed the North, far outstripping mileage in the South.

[eat_veggies]

Do you understand the difference between starting an engine and keeping it running? I'm referring to northern wealth btw.

> Where were the industries in the South? Where were the industries in South America?

They weren't there precisely because slave labor was so profitable that they did not see the need to industrialize.

> Why did the South secede to protect their economy from the North?

The south seceded in order to protect the institution of slavery.

> Take a look at contemporary photos and paintings of the North and South before 1865

Good thing we don't measure wealth by photos and paintings, and instead we have census data. Be serious, think about why an economy based on slave labor and agriculture would not build a network of railroads even if they had the money for it.