06-09-2008, 04:36 PM
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
British investors built small, fast "blockade runners" that traded arms and luxuries from Bermuda, Cuba and the Bahamas in return for high-priced cotton and tobacco.
http://www.tax.org/museum/1861-1865.htm
This hardly covers the subject. You take it up the ass this time.