Southerners Point To Rhode Island’s Record

"The British Royal African Company was the chief culprit in populating North America and the West Indies with African slaves. Despite being near bankrupt from high expenses, it was considered too big to fail and received government subsidy. The Southern States inherited this British colonial labor system which after the Revolution was set on a potential track to abolition, but the advent of Massachusetts tinkerer Eli Whitney’s invention in the mid 1790’s and the rise of New England cotton mills perpetuated slavery."