Liverpool’s Abercromby Square and the Confederacy During the U.S. Civil War

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About the Exhibit

This exhibition explores connections between the U.S. South and Great Britain during the American Civil War, particularly through trading activities led by a group of influential businessmen who lived in Liverpool's Abercromby Square. Despite widespread popular opinion against slavery by the mid-eighteenth century in Great Britain, the fortunes of this elite neighborhood were still intricately tied to the fate of the Confederacy. Published December 2015.

Credits

Christopher Williams, Jim Powell, and Joseph Kelly, University of Liverpool