A victorious CSA restarts the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1867

The CSA wins and Jubal Early is elected POCS. So many slaves ran away that there is a huge slave shortage. Ignoring the CSA Constitution he restarts the Atlantic Slave Trade. What happens?
 
The Royal Navy sinks and intercepts every single ship; then supports the North in the eventual reconquest of the CSA a few years down the line.
 
The Royal Navy sinks and intercepts every single ship; then supports the North in the eventual reconquest of the CSA a few years down the line.

:confused:Sinks and then intercepts? The Royal Navy has submarines? :D

Really? Are you sure you want slave ships sunk with all cargo?

re the OP, Britain bemoans the rise of Barbarism in The New World; much oration is thundered; a few merchantmen are confiscated; and the world goes on about it's merry way,
 
The CSA is screwed if that happens. The Brits hate slavery and RN will destroy every slaver ship coming through the Atlantic.
 
The CSA wins and Jubal Early is elected POCS. So many slaves ran away that there is a huge slave shortage. Ignoring the CSA Constitution he restarts the Atlantic Slave Trade. What happens?

The UK can't suddenly oppose slavery after backing what is clearly a pro-slavery state. I think the CSA would "never officially" practice the slave trade, and the UK would "Accept" the CSA's declaration at face value.

If the PoD doesn't involve the UK earning the enmity of the United States for another century, their response may well be to quietly negotiate with the USA to reincorporate the South and offer economic and foreign policies to isolate and weaken the Southrons.

It's not impossible either in a rematch, that the United States would accept the assistance of Canadian and British volunteers, with the caveat that Slavery in the South would be abolished.

Such aid probably serves as a training project for the Boer War in the 1890s.

Of course, I can see something like the Belgian Congo making a pile of money through illicit slave trading...
 
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"Intercepts, unloads (probably at Freetown in Sierra Leone), and confiscates" is the sequence. Prize money!
Bearing in mind how much effort Britian had already had the Royal Navy put into suppressing the Atlantic slave-trade earlier in that century, and its continuing efforts against the Indian Ocean slave-trade, there's no way that the CSA's renewal of shipping is tolerated.
Anyway, where in Africa would the CSA actually acquire its slaves from? By this time most of the African coastline was falling under the influence or even outright control of various European nations that opposed the business...

(And even if we had previously been supporting the CSA to some extent, we actually started operations against the trade in new slaves a couple of decades before actually banning slavery itself across the empire, so there would be precedent for suppressing the trade while still accepting the country's existence...)
 
Given how much profit slave-owners in Virginia were making on breeding slaves, I think there would be some resistance to reopening the slave trade in the CSA. Besides, a sudden influx of slaves will also devalue the working slaves owned in the Deep South as well. Plantation owners were not going to sit idle while their biggest investment lost its value.
 
The CSA wins and Jubal Early is elected POCS. So many slaves ran away that there is a huge slave shortage. Ignoring the CSA Constitution he restarts the Atlantic Slave Trade. What happens?


So honestly, is this some kind of joke? Are we trying to make a point about what you think are people ignoring the realities of the CSA constitution with things like, ending slavery?
 
So honestly, is this some kind of joke? Are we trying to make a point about what you think are people ignoring the realities of the CSA constitution with things like, ending slavery?

The CSA Constitution was largely ignored OTL I don't see why that wouldn't continue.
 
Given how much profit slave-owners in Virginia were making on breeding slaves, I think there would be some resistance to reopening the slave trade in the CSA. Besides, a sudden influx of slaves will also devalue the working slaves owned in the Deep South as well. Plantation owners were not going to sit idle while their biggest investment lost its value.

The assumption is so many slaves escaped to the North that there is a severe shortage of them.
 
So honestly, is this some kind of joke? Are we trying to make a point about what you think are people ignoring the realities of the CSA constitution with things like, ending slavery?

Slave Trader killed in 1862

I'm thinking the question may be imprecise; the CSA probably would not seek to "restart" the slave trade so much as quietly continue it. If a state like the Belgian Congo quietly sells slaves, a Confederate ship could potentially hide its human cargo and then sell it in a Southern Port.
 
The assumption is so many slaves escaped to the North that there is a severe shortage of them.

Supply and demand. That just makes slave breeding more profitable for those left in the business. I also suspect that whites are going to fill some of the economic roles slaves once filled, and might oppose bringing back the slave trade for reasons of economic competition.
 
Supply and demand. That just makes slave breeding more profitable for those left in the business. I also suspect that whites are going to fill some of the economic roles slaves once filled, and might oppose bringing back the slave trade for reasons of economic competition.

Of course it makes it more profitble for those in the slave breeding business. Howver, the planters who control the government sees the price of slaves soar and don't have enough of them to pick their crops. What the Poor Whites think doesn't matter much, they don't have a say in anything anyways.
 
See the CSA Constitution. The slave trade is outlawed, except with the USA.

Which is why I said it was ignored. The OP says that. The CSA constitution was regularly ignored. The thing to remember is the planters WERE the government. If they want it ignored it is ignored. If they want to give it an appearance of legality they amend the CSA Constitution. What ever the planters wanted they got. After all they were the government.
 
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