>>17850928
The North had like 5 times the population + industry, realistically the only reason the South lasted as long as it did was northern generals being retards.
>>17852362
It was in fact race based, you couldn't enslave non-black people. There are occurrences where free black people were kidnapped and enslaved, this could never have happened to a white person. Also the vast majority of black people in America were slaves at the time.