tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post2429254735967069432..comments2024-03-28T22:11:05.593-05:00Comments on Civil War Quilts: Liverpool's Grand Southern BazaarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-50265110030154334802018-05-05T14:22:08.996-05:002018-05-05T14:22:08.996-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09954058844999813171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-30706584749342952712018-04-03T08:36:04.648-05:002018-04-03T08:36:04.648-05:00This is so interesting to read as I sit here in Li...This is so interesting to read as I sit here in Liverpool! <br /><br />19 Abercromby Square is now part of the University of Liverpool and the painting was still there when I was last in the building a few years ago.SewLittleToSayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02076753287480386264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281798505305352117.post-55680074966988396972018-04-02T02:06:35.372-05:002018-04-02T02:06:35.372-05:00Fascinating! An African American friend recently ...Fascinating! An African American friend recently visited the Liverpool museum and she felt they admirably confessed and truthfully illustrated their city and region's activities in support of the Confederacy, slavery in the Southern United States and the slave trade throughout centuries. <br /><br />The local economy near Liverpool included all the textile industries in and around Manchester where a great deal of cotton had been processed into fabric and printed for export and domestic use before the Civil War embargo significantly diminished the supply of that fiber. Liverpool itself was a shipbuilding center where the ships ordered by the Confederate Navy were constructed, as well as swift blockade runners. This shipbuilding was also a major contributor to the Liverpool economy. <br /><br />During the era of the international slave trade, Liverpool also had built many of the infamous ships designed to transport slaves chained together below deck from their point of purchase in Africa to their sale in South America, the West Indies and the US. This work continued even after Britain banned the participation of its citizens in the international slave trade and later abolished slavery in all of its colonies.<br /><br />Throughout the War Britain was courted by the South through diplomacy and trade to enter the War officially on the Confederate side and it nearly succeeded because of these strong economic ties. Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward prevented Britain from doing so near the end of the War by threatening that if that was Britain's choice the North would deem it an Act of War and with its international allies would undertake reprisals at sea. At that point, momentum on the battlefield was turning to favor the North and Britain also had to weigh the eventual, post-War cost of siding against the victor in War if, as seemed more and more likely, the North prevailed. <br /><br />As we know, Britain ultimately refrained from officially joining with the Confederacy. It would be very interesting to read the history of British-Confederate relations during the Civil War from the British point of view.Suzanne Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08387297696390711279noreply@blogger.com