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“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…

— Edward E. Baptist

“The struggle of the Union and Confederate economies to supply and support their armies thus became a reflection of the prewar antagonism between liberal…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen…

— Howard Zinn

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South fought, according…

— James W. Loewen

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.”

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need to quell…

— Percival Everett

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

— John Quincy Adams

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman