at the time the south completely dominated the government, and by leveraging their ownership of political power they were able to maintain and expand their slave state. They did not want to abolish slavery as this was the main avenue of exploitation in the less industrialized south, and the north would have a severe advantage. The impetus for the northern capitalists to abolish slavery was because of the desire to expand, and the south was constantly getting in the way of their unfettered development by way of the legal system which the south also owned.

The republicans representing the northern capitalists actually divided up the south and placed garrisons there to keep the southern democrats in a disadvantageous state, and this led to many of the progressive developments of black reconstruction, with black reconstruction being backed by the northern republicans. It wasn't until the north began to suffer from labor resistance did the collaboration between the republicans and democrats become officiated and the republicans and democrats agreed to help each other by focusing on the labor resistance in the north and black resistance in the south respectively, while dividing up the struggle between white and non-white workers to the workers unfortunate ignorance.

The republicans pulled the army out of the garrisons to crush labor while the democrats used their new privileges unhindered by the north to destroy black reconstruction.