[DesertRhino]

And you make me so mad i can’t believe it. Another thing for you here. Before you think England was on some holy crusade to end slavery,,,, tell us why they supported the south all they could during the civil war?

They tried as hard as they could for the slave holding south to win.

They arent the heroes you pretend they are. But we were,,,

[GeronL]

They tried as hard as they could for the slave holding south to win. Because it would weaken the US, their competition.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The US Civil war was a divisive issue in Britain, although the governing political class was generally sympathetic to the southern cause for their own elitist/pragmatic reasons, the ordinary people of Britain tended to be sympathetic to the anti-slavery Union cause. There is a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Manchester standing that was paid for by subscription by people who suffered economically from the Union blockade which prevented southern cotton reaching the cotton mills of Lancashire. In spite of the hardship they endured because of Lincoln's policies, they viewed him as a hero.

If it wasn't for the 'anti-slavery crusade' element of the US Civil War, it is likely that the British (and the French) would have intervened in favour of the south, but they didn't, because they knew that it would have been an extremely unpopular intervention...

[chessplayer]

“And you make me so mad i can’t believe it. Another thing for you here. Before you think England was on some holy crusade to end slavery,,,, tell us why they supported the south all they could during the civil war?

They tried as hard as they could for the slave holding south to win.”

I don`t think they supported the south because the south supported slavery. I think it was more of a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing. The breakup of the US was in their best interests.