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In this leaflet, Pennsylvania philanthropists solicited charitable donations for unemployed British textile workers. The sudden decline in the cotton supply created by the Civil War led to widespread reports of "actual or impending starvation" in…

The Crisis, an Ohio newspaper sympathetic to the Confederacy, published this editorial excoriating Major General Curtis for using his authority to confiscate and sell cotton. The editorial is followed by a transcript of Major General Steele's…

Protestors gather in 1999 for a 24-hour encampment to protect it from demoliton. Protestors built barricades and campred out in the garden. They slept in the Coqui, a large, frog-shaped tree house and a symbol of Puerto Rico. The garden was…

Poster for Reclaim the Street's Festival of Resistance, June 1999

This report in the Boston Daily Advertiser used the Manchester Cotton Report to estimate the amount of cotton that had evaded the Union blockade.

In this account of the occupation of Memphis by Federal troops, the correspondent emphasized the loyalty of the locals and their eagerness to trade. He described stores of cotton and sugar hidden from the Confederates brought out to be sold in Union…

This report from the New York Herald examined the economic impact of the war on New England. While many factories shut down because of the cotton shortage, the article reported that textile workers were gainfully employed as newly enlisted soldiers…

News article reporting the closing of textile mills in Fall River, MA.

This editorial, originally from the Providence Post but reprinted in the Columbian Register, discussed views on abolition in England. The correspondent asserted that the British care more for a stable cotton supply than the freedom of the slaves and…

State Department dispatch to William Seward from William Dayton, recounting Louis Napoleon III's desperation to procure cotton for France.