From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:43:53 +0200, Phil Payne
>  wrote:
>
>
>>>Slavery was certainly placed under some limitations in the US but it was
>>>live and well right through the Civil War.  The Brits in no way
ELIMINATED
>>>slavery in the US.
>>
>>Actually we did - with economic sanctions.  Mainly on cotton shipments.
>
>
> That's complete nonsense. Britain supported the South during the Civil
> War and had to run Northern blockaders to keep the cotton imports coming
> in to feed its cotton mills. After the war you could no longer get
> sufficient cotton from the US and so took over Egypt to change its farm
> economy to producing a cash crop, cotton, wrecking its economy in the
> process.

Rubbish as usual Gene. We've had this discussion before & I've pointed
out the errors made here.

Adam

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