BLUE & GRAY FOREIGN RELATIONS (Part the Second): THE TRENT AFFAIR
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| Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) |
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| James Murray Mason (1798-1871) |
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| John Slidell (1793-1871) |
In which we continue our discussion of Union and Confederate diplomacy by looking at the Trent Affair, which took the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war.
Our book recommendation for this episode is Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations by Phillip E. Myers.
“Phillip E. Myers places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly for the lack of any real chance of British intervention on the side of the Confederacy… Based on extensive research in the United States and Great Britain, this major reinterpretation of the transatlantic relationship is ‘international history’ in its truest sense.” ~ Mary Ann Hess, Editor, New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series
Listen to Episode 84: ForeignRelationsPartSecond