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Originally Posted by Sanjuro
To me this is a quite unbelievable scenario; although the Prime Minister, Palmerston, favoured the Confederacy, the likelihood of Britain going to war in favour of a slave-owning nation, thirty years after slavery was abolished in the British Empire has never seemed great.
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Why so unbelievable? This is the same empire that had already fought two wars with Americans in the past 90 years.
It's not so much about slavery as other things. The Empire was undisputed master of the seas at the time. it could easily have inflicted some more punishment upon their upstart former colonials, which doesn't seem so far a stretch. It would weaken a rapidly industrializing rival and put Americans "in their proper place".