No group of people profited from slavery as did Yankees. They started it here; got rich from it; built an industrial empire with the blood-money; sold them off when they were no longer needed; and even found a way to gain from emancipation. Yet they expected the South to lose everything by just 'letting them go'. Why didn't 'noble' Yankees just use their slave money and buy their freedom? - Since they couldn't stand to see them in chains and all. THAT would be worth bragging about.