[DiogenesLamp]

What was actually happening was that they were using Indian indentured servitude that was slavery in all but name as forced labor while denying other countries access to that cheap agricultural labor source.

I've said for a long time that without the Union interdicting Southern Cotton going to European markets, the only way a foreign company could compete would be to use slaves themselves.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "I've said for a long time that without the Union interdicting Southern Cotton going to European markets, the only way a foreign company could compete would be to use slaves themselves."

Blockades have been a usual feature of warfare for many centuries.
It had to be expected, but blockade was not what stopped cotton shipments to Europe -- that was Confederates' "cotton diplomacy" they hoped would win friends & influence people in Europe.

It failed.