Correct. Sink the boats, pick your own damn cotton.

Let’s not ignore the history here. Picking cotton during a Georgia summer sucked ass, and slaves were practically pennies on the dime when it came to cheap mass labor. This allowed the South to gain massive traction in wealth that rivaled the central government (aka New York bankers aka Jews). This is the real reason the Civil War was fought, anyone who believes it was to liberate black people is fucking retarded. The central government couldn’t handle losing the power they had and the south very much could’ve seceded and been self-sustaining even to this day.

The government alongside the northern states began a smear campaign saying things like all slave owners would kill and maim their slaves for fun (maybe some did but in most cases killing your workers isn’t ideal for business and most were relatively tame and even allowed a lot of time for blacks to learn trades that eventually helped them get jobs after being freed). They also colluded to override state laws to create underground railroads to essentially steal and “liberate” the property of Southern plantations. Yet again undermining state’s rights while pushing the propaganda that the North were the good guys.

I can go even further and clarify how this problem stems even further back to when Alexander Hamilton pushed for the banks to find a home smack dab in New York City as even at our country’s founding the North and South operated very differently and often didn’t agree on much. To the point where many founding fathers predicted the civil war. In hindsight the biggest fallacy of our nations founding is not finding the right balance between state rights and the power of a central government, if one even exists. I don’t get paid enough to answer that question even if I could.