The racists are going crazy

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
I do know we used to bring cotton from America, until the weavers learned about slaves. They refused to use American cotton and the factories closed, causing great hardship to Lancashire. They then brought in Egyptian which was inferior, it was known as Shoddy!
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I checked this out and can't find anything to corroborate tbh. But it seems the global cotton industry collapsed in on itself in the 1860s "Factory owners no longer bought large quantities of raw cotton to process and large parts of Lancashire and the surrounding areas' workers became unemployed and went from being the most prosperous workers in Britain to the most impoverished".

*collapsed due to overproduction.

31 December 1862, a meeting of cotton workers at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, despite their increasing hardship, resolved to support the Union in its fight against slavery. An extract from the letter they wrote in the name of the Working People of Manchester to His Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America says:

... the vast progress which you have made in the short space of twenty months fills us with hope that every stain on your freedom will shortly be removed, and that the erasure of that foul blot on civilisation and Christianity – chattel slavery – during your presidency, will cause the name of Abraham Lincoln to be honoured and revered by posterity. We are certain that such a glorious consummation will cement Great Britain and the United States in close and enduring regards.

— Public Meeting, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 31 December 1862.
On 19 January 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent an address thanking the cotton workers of Lancashire for their support,

... I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the workingmen at Manchester and in all Europe are called to endure in this crisis. It has been often and studiously represented that the attempt to overthrow this government, which was built upon the foundation of human rights, and to substitute for it one which should rest exclusively on the basis of human slavery, was likely to obtain the favor of Europe. Through the actions of our disloyal citizens the workingmen of Europe have been subjected to a severe trial, for the purpose of forcing their sanction to that attempt. Under these circumstances, I cannot but regard your decisive utterance upon the question as an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country. It is, indeed, an energetic and reinspiring assurance of the inherent power of truth and of the ultimate and universal triumph of justice, humanity, and freedom. I do not doubt that the sentiments you have expressed will be sustained by your great nation, and, on the other hand, I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and the most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people. I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that, whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual. Abraham Lincoln

— 19 January 1863

...the workingmen of Europe have been subjected to a severe trial...
So that letter wasn't self-serving.<sarcasm>

comment by Serious Thorgen Kloppinson - It's the fac... (U1282)
posted 1 hour, 1 minute ago
comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
I do know we used to bring cotton from America, until the weavers learned about slaves. They refused to use American cotton and the factories closed, causing great hardship to Lancashire. They then brought in Egyptian which was inferior, it was known as Shoddy!
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I checked this out and can't find anything to corroborate tbh. But it seems the global cotton industry collapsed in on itself in the 1860s "Factory owners no longer bought large quantities of raw cotton to process and large parts of Lancashire and the surrounding areas' workers became unemployed and went from being the most prosperous workers in Britain to the most impoverished".
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Not much has changed then...

I see RDD had been banned again

has ^

A bit harsh

comment by Stewart Greacen (U1734)
posted 8 minutes ago
A bit harsh
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What did you do to him Barry

comment by Roy's Keane (U11635)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Stewart Greacen (U1734)
posted 8 minutes ago
A bit harsh
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What did you do to him Barry


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Not sure. He threatened to complain about me so was correctly banned