I can not help myself here but, perhaps you can set me straight if wrong. Wasn't the Civil War actually started on the behalf of Money more then the south owning slaves. As the North was losing out to the south in sea trade, and the South growing faster in export then the North was happy to see. Do to the fact of the Slaves being the primary work force, the South was producing more then the north. Northerners owned Slaves as well as the Southerners. just in a different capacity. When the war began The Slave issue was more or less a cover to get what the North really wanted. The control of the import and export system. Abe Lincoln owned slaves prior to the War so I have read. Just a thought here, Margrett McCorkle