Eggplant: It’s to England’s credit that they outlawed slavery without recourse to a civil war. We in the United States almost destroyed ourselves by the process of outlawing slavery.

Really? Great Britain was firmly on the side of the CSA during the American Civil War, and it was only Lincoln’s total blockade of southern ports which kept them from financing more bloodshed through the cotton trade. The “special relationship” between the US and UK didn’t come into existence until Kaiser Bill’s U-boat campaign, which nearly won the war for him. After declaring war in April 1917, America began to help supply the British and make good on the UK’s losses in warships.