This cartoon from the British magazine Punch indicates that after a Union warship removed two Confederate leaders off the British ship Trent, Lincoln decided to __________
A) release the prisoners in order to avoid war with Britain
B) execute the prisoners and face a possible war with Britain
C) keep the Confederates imprisoned for the duration of the war
D) stop exports to Britain because they sympathized with the Confederacy
A
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