Well, first off, Manchester is over 200 miles from Soho,so I’m not sure where that reference came from.
Secondly, the House of Commons is a representative body, so I would hope that the Members of Parliament would care would the voters thought on policy.
Thirdly, I chose to highlight the feelings of the cotton workers of Manchester because they were directly impacted by the reduction in cotton supplies because of the embargo, but still chose to go on record against recognizing the CSA because of slavery. They felt very strongly that recognizing the CSA was wrong, even though they were losing their jobs.
Lastly, still waiting for you to provide the identity of a major country that had slavery that the UK recognized AFTER 1861.
“Lastly, still waiting for you to provide the identity of a major country that had slavery that the UK recognized AFTER 1861.”
Are you daft, man? I’ve already mentioned the United States (so I guess you do not think the United States was a major country in the 19th century). Great Britain did not stop recognizing the United States, so they necessarily recognized the United States, which was a major country where slavery was legal.
And, are you really serious about Parliament caring very much what their working-class constituents thought? I can tell you, that in the mid-19th century Parliament didn’t give much of a damn what their working-class constituents thought, but they very much cared what the merchant class thought. Kind of like our Congress.