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| Liverpool was a vibrant port that thrived on importing the raw ingredients essential to feed Britain's avaricious Industrial Revolution. Few products were as valuable as that of cotton being imported in enormous quantities to supply the myriad Mills of the Northern Industrial heartland of Britain. The fact that so much of this came from the Confederate South would put imports at risk from the Union's embargo. Her shipyards would build blockade runners for the South and even built two ironclads that could well have shifted the strategic maritime balance had the British government not seized them before they could leave the Mersey. As it was, Liverpool identified very heavily with the Dixie 'underdogs' who they felt were the victims of an overbearing Federal government. |
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