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To: JBW1949
The south thought that because of Europe’s reliance on the south for cotton, the seccession would be economically good for the southern states...

Well they really blew that one then, didn't they?

34 posted on 05/07/2017 12:54:32 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Yep...Sure did....


35 posted on 05/07/2017 12:58:08 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: DoodleDawg
Well they really blew that one then, didn't they?

Do you know how right you are?

The Confederacy started out with an embargo on cotton shipments to Europe (mostly Britain), apparently hoping to pressure them into doing, what? The effect of that was, that the Brits 1) went looking for other sources of cotton, and 2) the Union had time to build up the Navy to a level that when shipping would have materially helped the Confederates, it was cut off by the Federal blockade.

All that cotton sat in warehouses waiting for ships that never came.

55 posted on 05/07/2017 3:27:37 PM PDT by thulldud
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