AHC: Extend slavery as long as possible

Is there a way for Brasil to extend slavery even longer than that of any American nation ?

Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery. By the time it was abolished, in 1888, an estimated four million slaves had been imported from Africa to Brazil, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas.

I think it is hard for any nation to be called a democratic country if they allowed slavery to still be in affect after 1900.
 
Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery. By the time it was abolished, in 1888, an estimated four million slaves had been imported from Africa to Brazil, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas.

I think it is hard for any nation to be called a democratic country if they allowed slavery to still be in affect after 1900.


Sorry for the information, I got confused with Brazil's abolishment date. But could Brazil remain further authoritarian with slavery into the twenteith century ?
 
Sorry for the information, I got confused with Brazil's abolishment date. But could Brazil remain further authoritarian with slavery into the twenteith century ?

The United States would boycott their economy as they would see it as wrong to say that we fought against "slavery" in the civil war but happy for other nations to have slaves.
So would nations like Britain and it empire.

If the CSA was to win the war, you might see CSA, South Africa and Brazil, as the three main slave traders but pushing into 1890 is a bit of a push for the out dated process especially with the Industrial nations of Germany, Great Britain and United States.
 
The United States would boycott their economy as they would see it as wrong to say that we fought against "slavery" in the civil war but happy for other nations to have slaves.
So would nations like Britain and it empire.

If the CSA was to win the war, you might see CSA, South Africa and Brazil, as the three main slave traders but pushing into 1890 is a bit of a push for the out dated process especially with the Industrial nations of Germany, Great Britain and United States.

Hmm, I hypothesise an Axis alliance forming here but all these powers are not as industrialised as America, the UK or other great powers. I don't know if Brasil, South Africa and the CSA can even attain great power status
 
TBH it becomes difficult to extend chattel slavery anywhere in the Western Hemisphere past 1890, you can extend the legal status of slave, but once gangs of forced labor cease to be a viable economic unit they become a liability and their masters probably worry about a large group of now economically useless "investments"* who might want revenge...

*lets be honest that's all slavers saw them as. Once they lose their economic value they become a liability, this raises interesting questions all its own.
 
The United States would boycott their economy as they would see it as wrong to say that we fought against "slavery" in the civil war but happy for other nations to have slaves.
So would nations like Britain and it empire.

If the CSA was to win the war, you might see CSA, South Africa and Brazil, as the three main slave traders but pushing into 1890 is a bit of a push for the out dated process especially with the Industrial nations of Germany, Great Britain and United States.

Very unlikely actually, unless you avoid the conquest of the Cape by Britain considering they abolished slavery across the empire in the 1840s IIRC (it was a bit after abolishing the slave trade but still quite early). The Boer states might revert but were intelligent enough not to actually call it slavery as that would have meant an early invasion by Britain (the 'something must be done' crowd were quite the force on this sort of point), and the Cape had so few blacks across the vast majority of the area that slavery wasn't really an option anyway (indeed if it wasn't for the annexation of British Bechuanaland and the Xhosa states, which the legislature was hostile too but was forced through by the governor, the Cape Province would have had a white/coloured majority up till WWII.)

Essentially, you can have a South Africa as a slave trading state, but not really OTL South Africa.
 
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