Original sentence: 71,751 bales of American cotton reached Liverpool in 1862.Many mill owners and workers resented the blockade and continued to see the war as an issue of tarifs against free trade.Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire in 1833 several decades earlier after a long campaign.The Unionists believed that all the British public, would now see this as an antislavery issue rather than an anti-protectionism issue, and would pressure its government not to intervene in any way that helped the South
Edited sentence: 71,751 bale of American cotton reached Liverpool in 1862.After that, to the British public, to intervene in any way that helped the South would be to support slavery, which had been abolished in the British Empire several decades earlier after a long campaign.Many mill owners and workers resented the blockade and saw the war as an issue of protectionism and tarifs against free trade