Confederate blockade runner

Glasgow was a big supporter of the Confederacy during the US Civil War. This display at the Riverside Museum caught me by surprise, and gave me a new perspective on the events around the Civil War.

Clyde river ship yards built about a dozen ships for the South that were highly customized to run the union blockades.

The Scottish and English economy was highly dependent on southern cotton and tobacco.

Even though slavery was illegal in the UK, there were over a century of business ties to the slave trade and products from slave labor.

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