Darren Halliwell

Group IT Director - Examworks UK - views expressed are my own

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They were starving. The cotton was right there. They refused to touch it.

Lancashire, 1862.🇬🇧

The cotton mills that clothed the world. The cotton came from American slave plantations.

Then the Civil War began. Lincoln blockaded the Southern ports. The cotton stopped coming.

331,000 people lost their jobs. The most prosperous workers in Britain were queuing for charity soup. Children went hungry.

Everyone expected them to break. Demand the government side with the slaveholders. Get the cotton flowing again.

They didn't.

New Year's Eve, 1862. Manchester Free Trade Hall.

Workers packed the hall. Hungry. Unemployed. Freezing.

The Manchester Guardian told them not to come.

They came anyway.

They voted to support Lincoln. To keep the blockade. To keep starving.

They refused to buy their survival with someone else's chains.

Lincoln wrote back. He called it "sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country."

Then he sent ships full of food to Lancashire.

There's still a statue of Lincoln in Manchester. His words are still on it.

But here's what most people don't know.

That hall, the Free Trade Hall, was built on the exact site of the Peterloo Massacre.

In 1819, cavalry charged into working people on that same ground. Demanding the right to vote. At least fifteen killed.

Same ground. Same working people. Two generations apart.

In 1819 they were cut down for asking to be heard. In 1862 their children chose to starve for someone else's freedom.

Lancashire. Every time.

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Who keeps making these 😂

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