[jmacusa]

Rather an odd attitude for the Brits to take considering they were rather keen on class separation in their own culture. "God bless the squire and his relations to keep us all in our stations'' they said. Lower your station the worse off you were.

[rockrr]

When the union began quarantining the southern ports they cut off England from a substantial cotton supply. They found stocks elsewhere but it was more expensive and I understand lesser quality. The Brits would have loved to do business with the confeds - right up until they devoured them.