Manchester’s statues: Abraham Lincoln
Today we’ll be having a look at another of Manchester’s statues, specifically the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Square.
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00:00To the working man of Manchester, I cannot but regard your decisive utterances upon the question as an instance of sublime Christian heroism, which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country.
00:10I have no hesitation in assuring you that they will excite admiration, esteem, and most reciprocal feelings of friendship among the American people.
00:17I hail this inner change of sentiment, therefore, as an augury of whatever else may happen.
00:21Whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exists between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.
00:30Now that is an extract from a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the working men of Manchester following this city's decisive stance on the American Civil War.
00:37The American cotton trade was built on slavery, and Manchester was built on cotton.
00:40Yet in the Civil War, this city stood tall in the face of overwhelming financial pressure to take a stand against the Confederates,
00:45taking we would no longer work with any cotton bought from the South of America.
00:48It took money away from the Confederate Army and allowed Abraham Lincoln and the Unionists to win the war and ban slavery.
00:53The statue may initially seem out of place, but it stands as a beacon of Manchester's commitment to fight against human rights abuses, slavery, and all inequality.