I think the idea that "development" can be divorced from normative social goals is baffling: not just slave owners but most southern whites thought the system gave them not just sufficient wealthy but also the social order they wanted (with themselves as the top caste)
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Mississippi & S. Carolina were the two richest states in the Union in 1860. Union soldiers were fighting more to end the oligarchs trying to dissolve the Union than slavery. It took a destructive war for Lincoln to change from stopping the spread of slavery to emancipation.
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