I do not want to sabotage this thread, but I want to mention that Northern businesses, therefore Northern people, benefited immensely from slave labor all the way to the very end. The major industry was clothing and the Yankee businessmen as well as Britain needed cotton. The Lancashire Cotton Famine is a very tragic and intriguing story of the time. My father's ancestors were cotton weavers in Manchester and his g-grandfather was a successful gunmaker in Liverpool (selling exclusively to the CSA). It was a Tale of Two Cities with a huge impact on the War. I have family accounts of the turmoil. http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Lancashire-Cotton-Famine/