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I simply disagree. Anything beyond the northern industrialists being upset over the unfair economic advantage southern businessmen had by not having to pay employees is overstating the period historical reality. The southerners rebelled against being told what to do by the north. Technology was making plantation slaves irrelevant and if anything a financial burden. And horrifically, we had hundreds of thousands of people dead, maimed, families devastated...and it simply never had to happen.
I contend that any such "disadvantage" was minimal. The South had no industry that competed with the North. The North had no such cotton agriculture to compete with what had become near to a one-crop South ...... cotton.
We would agree with the South not wanting to be told what to do by the North, but again, virtually all issues there of any import were significantly inter-twined with slavery. Where the passion for war existed, those issues revolved around slavery and abolition.