The Grievances of the South

Richard Cobden, a veteran campaigner for free trade, objected to the way that British supporters of the Confederacy in America’s Civil War made out that the issue was freedom to trade, citing an American report showing that the Southern States themselves seemed concerned only with their right to legalise and extend slavery.

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