EVER WONDER WHY GRANT DIDN'T BURN NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI... 

If you were to really do some serious research you will find many of the big mega plantations were owned by Northerners or people from the North who migrated to the South. Just take a visit to Natchez,Ms.

Tour the homes there and you will find that most of the people who owned them were absentee landlords living in New York and Philadelphia. A look into the history of New York will reveal that New York and Boston were both built on slave labor, as well as Washington DC.

Well, bless their hearts...they make all the money and the South catches the greif...