<p>Knoxxxville is exactly right. The Northerners did not hold as many slaves not because they were morally against slavery but instead because the farmland was not as fertile and there was less of a need to have slave labor. The civil war was not about slavery - The civil war was all about money. Lincoln wanted to institute the American System and the south didn't agree. Read the Real Lincoln by DiLorenzo - GREAT BOOK.</p>