This article focuses on some of the religious factors that shaped the pro-Southern lobby in Britain during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. British opinion cannot be explained only in terms of class and party. In exploring other determinants, the ideas and activities of wealthy High Churchman and Conservative politician Beresford Hope offer promising avenues of inquiry, for Hope saw in the American Union, and Southern secession, a religious dimension, represented most clearly in the Episcopal Church. To the more familiar (to historians) reasons why the South gained support in Britain—relating to economic and political interests—Hope added a deeper commitment arising from a sense of cultural affinity (the “Englishness” of the South) and from religious conviction (to him the Church, and indeed Christianity, seemed stronger in the South than in the North). This indicates a belief that Britain and the South were bound together by common Christian civilization.

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美国内战和重建期间英国对南方的同情

本文重点讨论在美国内战和重建期间塑造英国亲南方游说团体的一些宗教因素。英国的观点不能仅以阶级和政党来解释。在探寻其他决定因素时，富有的高级教会人士和保守派政治家贝雷斯福德·霍普的思想和活动提供了有希望的探究途径，因为霍普在美国联邦看到了这一点，而南方分裂国家是一个宗教层面，在圣公会中最为明显。对于更熟悉的（对历史学家来说）为什么南方在经济和政治利益方面获得英国支持的原因，霍普增加了更深层次的承诺，这源于文化亲和力（南方的“英语”）和宗教信仰（对他来说，教会，乃至基督教，在南方似乎比在北方强。这表明人们相信，英国和南方受到共同的基督教文明的束缚。