Over the last decade or so, it's become popular to buy "organic" and "naturally sourced" food products. I was wondering if there was ever a similar abolitionist-based movement during the American Civil War. Was there any group trying to promote products and commodities made only from sources and materials that didn't use slavery?
During the Civil War itself? Or would movements to boycott slave-produced products in the period in which slavery was controversial in the lead-up to the Civil War (and in the lead-up to the abolition of slavery in other countries) count?
As examples of the latter, the Transcendentalists of Fruitlands were not supposed to use cotton, grown under conditions of slavery, and wore linen.
Some English opposed to the slave-based sugar of the West Indies boycotted it too (Percy Bysshe Shelley, for example.).
Within the CSA, anti-slavery sentiment was rather unpopular, and within the USA in the Civil War, most (although not all) slavery-based products would have been covered under "trading with the enemy" (which is not to say that there was no trading with the enemy in the Civil War -- just that I wouldn't call obeying the law an organized movement).
One notable event in the midst of the Civil War, though, was in the UK: a shortage of cotton in the UK was a big problem for textile producers, leading to a lot of unemployment and hardship in the industrial towns of the English north like Manchester. In spite of this, the workers of Manchester passed a resolution favoring the union, calling for slavery to be destroyed as a blight on civilization and Christianity.