slavery

Big Question regarding a long period affected by a swarm of butterflies. But it's something I've pondered about before. The first type of slavery in the Islamic world that comes to popular imagination would be that of harems/concubines full of women from many places. Whether something like this...

If the South, more specifically Georgia, had a thriving manufacturing sector, would it still have become such a vehement defender of slavery? Georgia is home to Washington county which has some of the largest Kaolinite deposits which is needed to produce porcelain. If these deposits had been...

Slavery. One of the darkest marks on American history. In the years leading up to the American Civil War, there were multiple efforts by abolitionists - and even African Americans themselves - to abolish slavery. However, the abolition of slavery was way too late for many African Americans - and...

During the 2000s, I read Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis, which said that Northeastern Brazil’s development was seriously affected during the nineteenth century by a coffee-dominated exchange rate that priced large portions of its sugar and cotton out of the world market. Whilst whether...

With the abolitionist movement in Brazil growing ever more vigorous after the end of slavery in the provinces of Ceará and Amazonas, newly inaugurated prime minister Manuel Pinto de Sousa Dantas, a member of the Liberal Party, presented to the Chamber of Deputies a bill which proposed to...

Okay, so as an American, I have always considered our country's greatest foundational hypocrisy to be slavery. I consider the Native American Genocide to be the greater crime, but slavery is our greatest hypocrisy. Now, I don't want to go into a rant about it, but I don't really feel like I...

In all of history, there has only ever been one succesful slave rebellion, in Haiti. What would the effects of a succesful slave rebellino 2000 years earlier be? Could the slaves have ever succesfully kicked the Romans out of Sicily? If they had, what would happen? What sort of society would...

Is there any plausible alternate history scenario where the European colonization of Americas could happen WITHOUT African slavery? What would have to happen in Europe's history to prevent it? Or is there something that could of happened in Africa's development that could of prevented it? Since...

What would life look like for these for groups what would be present day Oklahoma? Do American Indians get a seat in the national legislature? Do Freedman and Indian Freedman get left alone and stay in their own little corner of the state? Do enslaved people revolt in these areas? What happens...

How different would American History would be if the Founding Fathers somehow ended up with the creation of the Confederate Constitution but without the unable to ban slavery and a Supreme Court?

Industrial slavery was thing in the South before, during and even after the war. How far could this take the South in terms of industry? How would this impact life of enslaved people. Would they become a minor or regional superpower?

Map by u/KolonelJoe on Reddit. Can the United States actually win againist both nations in the 1850s and take these territories? What would be the impact of slavery? Would this begin American colonization of Japan?

some people make a nonesense claim about reperations for slavery being "too late"; but this overlooks the fact that the victims of serious injustice are rarely in the position to demand reperations sucesfully right afterwards. so your challenge; it can be ASB; but only do that if you cannot...

Greetings, fellow forum members! Today I learned there was a plan to abolish slavery in Brazil a lot earlier than how it happened in our timeline. The plan was made by José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, one of the main "architects" of the brazilian independence and who helped to create the...

"No Democrat has a right to refuse his services when his country calls" David Allen Smalley, delegate from Vermont to the 1856 Democratic National Convention. The Candidates. On February 22nd 1856...

With a POD in 1794 or later (that date in particular chosen because it was the year after the Cotton Gin was invented), have the United States abolish slavery peacefully before the start of OTL's American Civil War, which ultimately ended the practice. The United States much also hold all of...

With a POD after 1800, how can large industrial complexes like the Tredegar Iron Works become a more common sight in the south of the United States? IIRC there was a plan to establish a similar (if smaller) factory in Birmingham, Alabama, but AFAIK the project never went ahead. How would a South...

The Holocaust as well as Generalplan Ost are well known aspects of Nazi Germans that any half decent Nazi victory TL talk about. Less attention, however, is put on the slavery system that Nazi Germany had. Before death camps became the staple for extermination of “Undesirables” towards the end...

Brazil was one of the last countries (if not the last) in the Americas to abolish slavery. However, is it possible for the institution to be abolished earlier in Brazil with a POD of 1770?

Alice (2022) is an upcoming film, wherein an escaped female slave, ends up in 1973, gets exposed to blaxploitation films, Black Power ideology, and decides to return to the antebellum South to exact her revenge: Basically, imagine Antebellum with actual time travel, and minus the M. Night...