Lancashire Cotton Famine
1861–1865 · Event
Overproduction and the American Civil War's interruption of cotton supplies idle Lancashire's mills — mass unemployment, relief works, and mill towns divided over the war, though Manchester's cotton workers publicly backed the Union against slavery.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Economic History, England, United Kingdom (combined), American Civil War
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