"Thankfully not, as the upper class in Britain at least tended to favour the Confederacy" Sidebar to a sidebar, but it went a little deeper than that. The Brit

"Thankfully not, as the upper class in Britain at least tended to favour the Confederacy" Sidebar to a sidebar, but it went a little deeper than that. The British industrialists tended to favor the South -- and supplied weapons to the Confederacy in the lead up to the war -- because they depended on Southern cotton imports. Their industrial interests were heavily tied up with the South's. There was actually a very real possibility that Britain would have gone further, and a lot of internal political pressure for it to do so.