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My question is thus; is there any way, with a pre-1776 POD, for the Southern United States to not only disenfranchise That Institution (while still seceding from Great Britain along with the other states), but also to see blacks as inherently equal to whites outside of perceived cultural differences*? The main idea I've had is for partus sequitur ventrem to never be enacted by the House of Burgesses in 1662, either due to the existence of alternate means of manual labor (e.g. more indentured servitude amongst the Africans brought overseas) or greater Franco-Spanish cultural influence against explicit prejudice on color grounds (as witnessed in New Orleans in the 18th and 19th centuries). Other ideas are, of course, welcome; the key objective of this thread is again not only doing away with slavery, but also dispensing as much as possible with the racism aspect as well.

*By this, I mean perhaps still pushing Christianity or European social mores, but not to the paternalistic degree of OTL.
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