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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 3853564, member: 7360&quot;]I collect old newspapers because it is really interesting to see how things were viewed at the time, without the benefit of hindsight.&nbsp; Punch was&nbsp; aimed at an upper class subscriber and, slavery apart, was more in sympathy with the artistocratic, rural Confederate society than the industrial, multi-cultural, ambitious North. I have the issues of the Illustrated London News of the period, and it is interesting that they had reporters &quot;imbedded&quot; with the Confederate troops and were also generally more sympathetic to them, but they also reported large gatherings of English workers in places like Manchester, who were expressing anti-slavery views, and had fellow-feeling for the slaves.&nbsp; Did you know that Britain almost went to war with the Union over their boarding a British vessel on the high seas and the removal of two Confederate ambassadors?&nbsp; Luckily it was smoothed out with diplomacy, but how different history might have been![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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