I am not deeply offended by that ship. Please do not lump me in your post.
To me the ship represents the fight our ancestors had to help the slaves:
Lincoln's great debt to Manchester
In 1863, The US President wrote to the 'working men of Manchester' thanking them for their anti-slavery stance
When cotton was king, Manchester's busy textile mills dressed the world. Because of this, great fortunes were made and ordinary families were fed. But in 1862, Lancashire mill workers, at great personal sacrifice, took a principled stand by refusing to touch raw cotton picked by US slaves.
On the other side of the Atlantic, President Lincoln's Northern Union was waging war against a breakaway of southern states. Having already linked the south with the institution of slavery, Lincoln persuaded European importers that his blockade of slave picked cotton was a legitimate tool in defeating the Confederacy and restoring the union.
I actually object more that they wrote 'working men' of Manchester and not working people of Manchester but hey ho that was of the time.