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Explanation: During the US Civil War, the pro-slavery Confederacy repeatedly attempted to get European countries, like Britain and France, to recognize and support them. For a brief period of time, the British government even considered intervening in the war - getting one over on the Americans and getting cheap cotton? What’s not to love?
… but the British public, including the electorate, was staunchly abolitionist by this time, and abhorred the thought of supporting a rebellion to prolong slavery in any way, shape, or form. For this reason, the British government had to tread lightly with its ‘foreign policy interests’, lest the next election be a massacre, leaving the Confederacy isolated and alone until its ignominious and much-deserved death four years later.
It’s worth noting the British PM at the time was also staunchly abolitionist, he just really hated America.
Living rent free since 1776 lmao
Based.
It’s also a big reason that Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. It forced the optics of anyone helping the south to appear as pro slavery.
…because the traitor states’ own declarations of secession didn’t make that clear enough, somehow.
tbf, one side being pro-slavery doesn’t make the other anti-slavery - making the Union nominally anti-slavery was a huge PR boost, even if it was initially controversial amongst voters. And it’s a lot harder to go against an anti-slavery polity fighting a pro-slavery polity, than a pro-slavery polity against a more pro-slavery polity.
People have never and never will read the docs.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
It would have been a huge boon the the British if the South had won.