Address from the Manchester Union & Emancipation Society to Abraham Lincoln

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Lancashire Cotton Famine Victorian Era history 19th century Anglo-American relations abolition of slavery

The anti-slavery citizens of Manchester, England, chose to support the Union rather than the Confederacy during the American Civil War, even though the loss of Southern cotton had devastated Manchester's textile industry and cost many their livelihoods. The day before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, they formed the Union and Emancipation Society and approved this address to send to Lincoln.

(British spelling)

S.D.G.

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