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  1. 03-09-2007, 16:49 #1
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    Just watched a program on telly about the Lancashire cotton famine. It seems that during the ACW the mill workers held a meeting at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and voted not to process any cotton coming from the CSA. This was a brave and noble thing they did as many thousands of them and their families died from starvation and disease. After the war was over Abraham Lincoln presented the people and mill workers of Manchester with a statue to thank them for their support.

    http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/ic3/68.html

    I remember my grand-dad saying something along these lines when I was a nipper. I'd forgotten it.

    Are any of our American cousins aware of this action in support of the USA in the civil war? And did it help in the final outcome?
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