[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...

[DesertRhino]

The British government that supposedly was fighting slavery was doing nothing of the kind. They enslaved India in a terrifying manner.

It’s amazing to hear another euro lecture. Not when there is so much blood on their hands all around the world. Wanna discuss opium in China? Wanna discuss king leopold in Belgium? Wanna discuss their treatment of Jews? The entire middle east, the asian subcontinent, China, and africa all are the result of European bullcrap.
Every hell hole on earth today has it’s roots in Europes abuse.

But America is the impure,,, what a joke. Go sip some tea,, just don’t think much about it.

[DesertRhino]

The British government that supposedly was fighting slavery was doing nothing of the kind. They enslaved India in a terrifying manner.

It’s amazing to hear another euro lecture. Not when there is so much blood on their hands all around the world. Wanna discuss opium in China? Wanna discuss king leopold in Belgium? Wanna discuss their treatment of Jews? The entire middle east, the asian subcontinent, China, and africa all are the result of European bullcrap.
Every hell hole on earth today has it’s roots in Europes abuse.

But America is the impure,,, what a joke. Go sip some tea,, just don’t think much about it and the plantations it came from.