R&E will close on the 28th December - see this thread. https://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=22932.0#new
My much loved city and a tiny part of its fascinating pasthttp://www.scotsman.com/news/how-glasgow-found-itself-at-the-centre-of-american-civil-war-1-4621765
I bet that would have pricked your conscience a bit though if you'd been there thenI think Manchester too was involved . might not have been that though ?
Some coverage of Manchester and Liverpool in the civil war. Any port on the west was intimately involved. I live in an area of Glasgow named effectively for tobacco and slaves. http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2011/05/08/manchester-and-liverpool-american-civil-war