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I'm pondering a dystopic scenario where the British crush the American Revolution and discredit "Enlightenment Humanism."

During subsequent decades, the unholy union of slave power in the Southern Colonies and the pro-slavery lobby tied in with the slave trade and the sugar plantations in the Caribbean brings the Atlantic slave trade to new heights of atrocity--I'm thinking over 100 million being worked to death in the plantations (with planters importing new slaves rather than take care of the ones they "have") over the centuries and parts of West Africa being totally depopulated and replaced with British settlers, who use the area as a basis for further slave-raiding. Pro-slavery sermons are preached in every Anglican church. Old-style laws against sedition are used to punish abolitionists with grotesque mutilations and Independents and Dissenters are subject once more to the same persecution as Catholics.

Meanwhile, Ireland is even more thoroughly colonized to the point Irish Catholics only exist in border-march regions in the Empire--in the Appalachians, India, southern Africa, Australia, etc. The French Revolution does not occur or, without the American example, in a more limited way (a new king who allows more power to the Third Estate rather than the abolition of the monarchy and aristocracy entirely), so monarchical despotism is the European norm.

However, I'm not sure how plausible this "North Atlantic Draka" is.

Soo......

What's the most evil the British Empire could possibly get?
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