Written just after the Trent affair had brought Britain and the United States to the edge of war, this essay argues that the Confederacy was fighting for slavery and that the North’s cause was that of freedom. Mill rebukes British sympathy for the South, dissects Southern claims, and urges his countrymen to wish the Union success.
A short, forceful intervention in transatlantic opinion by the great liberal thinker. Download the free EPUB.