America’s divides have never been simple. Neither was Pennsylvania’s Civil War history. | Opinion - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania more broadly, was not unique in this regard. Such sentiments were common in Northern cities. New York City in particular — which just last month unveiled artist Kehinde Wiley’s revised Civil War monument in Times Square — had strong commercial ties to the South, as did Philadelphia. Equipment for Southern plantations was forged in Northern commercial centers; insurance companies out of New York, Philadelphia, and other cities insured ships that brought cotton, tobacco, and other goods from the South to trading partners in the North and overseas. Northern investors poured huge amounts of money into the plantation economy. In cities such as Philadelphia, industrialists and merchants had tremendous fortunes to be lost if the South seceded permanently or if the plantation economy, built on the back of slavery, crumbled.

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