The North, at the time of secession, was headed, along with the rest of
the country, by Abraham Lincoln, who was also the first president of a
newly-born party the Republicans; while the Confederate states were
represented by a Democratic party, which in that era, and for some time
afterwards, represented the interests of the large landowners who owned
slaves and of small landowners who, though their use of slave labor was
modest compared to that of the large plantations, also lived on the
export of cotton and tobacco to industries across the Atlantic. Indeed,
as Marx had already noted in 1847 in/The Poverty of Philosophy/, the
slavery of the US South had little or nothing to do with ancient slavery
but constituted a modern system of exploitation, indispensable for the
development of British and European manufacturing capitalism.
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/field-notes/Fault-Line-of-the-American-Civil-War
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