This is an opinionated question, so points should not be affected toward your opinon. However, I believe corporations should not have loyalty to the United States because the U.S. could ban businesses from selling/sharing a product to certain countries, however I think the U.S. government should have some say in what corporations sell to other countries so that they aren't giving some random person in "who knows where" parts to make a bomb etc...
Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running.