Abolition In The CSA?

I always found it cliche - the idea that slavery would continue for a long time after the CSA would get it's independence.

Any probability for emancipation of slaves in the CSA? For one thing, I heard that the constitution of the CSA banned the slave trade.
 
I always found it cliche - the idea that slavery would continue for a long time after the CSA would get it's independence.

Any probability for emancipation of slaves in the CSA? For one thing, I heard that the constitution of the CSA banned the slave trade.

I would advise you to consider my reasoning in the other CSA thread. And the USA, OTL, did the same thing to increase the prices of slaves internally--in 1808.
 
I always found it cliche - the idea that slavery would continue for a long time after the CSA would get it's independence.

Any probability for emancipation of slaves in the CSA? For one thing, I heard that the constitution of the CSA banned the slave trade.

The Confederate Constitution did ban the international slave trade; however, it was perfectly legal to trade within the states.

As far as emancipation, that largely depends on your POD, but most likely you're not going to see a constitutional amendment (although the Confederate Constitution did make passing an amendment easier than the US Constituion) but rather each state individually ban slavery at different times. How soon is anybody's guess. You could make a reasonable argument either way IMO. I think no later than the turn of the century though.
 
Shouldn't this be in the pre-1900 forum?

Nevertheless, I would think that within twenty years of its inception, the CSA would have banned slavery altogether.
 
Wrong thread, this definitely belongs in the pre-1900 arena.

Why?:

1) The Confederacy wins early on, but is then forced by Britain, France and the US to emancipate or lose the three greatest cotton markets in the world, or...

2) The Confederacy wins after freedmen enlistment begins. When the CS Congress authorizes the manumission of slaves to serve under the Stars and Bars, slavery is dead in the South. That realization is the main reason why it wasn't passed until early 1865, eventhough the call to enlist blacks began in 1862-3...
 
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