Glen
Moderator
Presumably all this means that Liberia will only ever be a pipe-dream and nothing more?
Perhaps a gradual settlement of Sierra Leone incorporating the Liberia territory TTL,
Perhaps, perhaps....
as the colonies slowly see slavery abolished? With virtually all the American slaves still in British land, could the value (in terms of perceived importance, not economic worth) of Sierra Leone become far more than Sierra Leone and Liberia together IRL? Perhaps a much more concerted effort to create a large colony there since the British have to shoulder the entire burden? Or in contrast, perhaps instead the lack of a rivalry thereabouts will mean that Sierra Leone is left far less populated and instead the freed slaves are better integrated into their territories?
One could make an argument for any and all of the above.
Can you remind me, by the way, please Glen? Has the USA banned slavery entirely, or was it just for certain colonies?
Whole US.
If the latter, perhaps the far smaller numbers of Virginian slave-owners will mean that the issue is sufficiently small in the USA that it fails to be a deciding issue in American politics, and actually the Virginian plantations are left untouched for far longer?
Well, in a way the Virginian plantation system still continues after slavery, just transforming into a more seigneurial/sharecropping type system.
Though of course, you could just as logically argue that there would comparatively quickly just be a motion made by some congressman or other to end slavery that would pass without a whimper, in order to "tie up loose ends".
Loose ends tied!
I have to admit that my head is swimming trying to calculate how the (eventual) DSA will work out in the end vis a vis freeing slaves.
Indeed.
Presumably the institution of slavery cannot, and should not, last forever, but will the abundance of slaves create horrendous ethnic tensions which make the KKK seem like saints?
Could be....
Or by contrast, will a far more abundant free slave population,
Free Slave?
after the inevitable initial teething period of unrest, actually mean that the two communities spill over into each other far more frequently, leading to a much more integrated, tolerant society?
This, too, is possible.
I guess I'll leave the tough decisions to you
Thanks, thanks a lot....