sentences:  The war was to split the British population as well as American, in both the mother country and her colonies.In Britain, those who benefited from the sale of war materials and supplies to the Confederacy, whose cloth factories were dependent on the supply of American cotton, or who admired the vaguely aristocratic political hierarchy of the Southern states, were set against abolitionists, at least until the Trent Affair.The conflict was even greater in colonies that were nearer to the field of battle.