Abstract
Many historians portray the British politicians who aided the Confederate States of America as doing so with a uniform reason. However, a closer look at their actions, statements, and writings reveals that each of these men not only held their own personal reasons for supporting the Confederacy, but that these interests influenced them more than did those of their nation. This is a historiographical gap which I intend to fill. Examinations of the personal and public writings of several British leaders, as well as their actions, reveal that these reasons not only conform to their motivations but likewise demonstrate a strong conviction to beliefs which they held before the Civil War. Furthermore, these men came from varying ends of the political spectrum, indicating that this may not have been some sort of party line either.