So I have been reading Turtledove's TL 191 books and I am trying to figure out why Great Britain and France would help the Confederates. There's quite a lengthy thread elsewhere on this site about Britain, but what about France? What incentives would France have to help the Confederacy? Does the South's agricultural trade have anything to do with it? If they're reservations against slavery are so strong, why would they not help the North?