AHC no civil war

the only way to prevent the Civil War is to make Slavery unafforable... like having the Bole Weevil infests the south earlier than in the OTL... its hard to justify a "way of life" when you can't afford to keep it

How would the Boll Weevil make slavery unaffordable?
 
this is actually a very easy challenge. the challenge in the opening post was to simply prevent the civil war with either Lincoln or Buchannan. While it is unlikely to have happen if Lincoln simply allows the south to leave peacefully the challenge met in a technical sense if not in the spirit that it was intended.

The Confederacy chose not to leave in peace. The war started because the Confederate President ordered Confederate troops to attack Union soldiers in a Union fort on Union soil. After which, the Confederate Secretary of War announced Confederate intentions to invade and seize the Union capitol.

"No man can tell where the war this day commenced will end, but I will prophesy that the flag which now flaunts the breeze here will float over the dome of the old Capitol at Washington before the first of May. Let them try southern chivalry and test the extent of southern resources, and it may float eventually over Faneuil Hall itself." - Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker, April 12, 1861
 
this is actually a very easy challenge. the challenge in the opening post was to simply prevent the civil war with either Lincoln or Buchannan. While it is unlikely to have happen if Lincoln simply allows the south to leave peacefully the challenge met in a technical sense if not in the spirit that it was intended.

Lincoln could with draw troops form fort Sumter.

A peaceful separation could lead to other problems. More states may seceded for other reasons later. Federal government might need limit is powers to the enumerated powers This could lead to a weak federal government compared to OTL.
Imperial powers in Europe might see the CSA and the USA as a target for future expansion.

Could be my dividing the USA in to the USA and CSA results in both being taken over by the imperial powers.

The long term effect of both the USA and CSA with weak central governments would have on ww1 and any other conflict in Europe would be interesting.

Without the OTL USA joining in ww1 Europe might be a very different place.


Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address#Background

Many in the CSA might wonder why they came independent when Lincoln made no effort to free slaves.

While the British were against slavery at the time the were doing some thing not unlike slavery in Australia.

Blackbirding
Blackbirding is the coercion of people through trickery and kidnapping to work as labourers. From the 1860s, blackbirding ships in the Pacific sought workers to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands in Peru.[2] In the 1870s, the blackbirding trade focused on supplying labourers to plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations of Queensland and Fiji.[3][4] The first documented practice of a major blackbirding industry for sugar cane labourers occurred between 1842 and 1904. Those "blackbirded" were recruited from the indigenous populations of nearby Pacific islands or northern Queensland. In the early days of the pearling industry in Western Australia at Nickol Bay and Broome, local Aborigines were blackbirded from the surrounding areas.
Blackbirding has continued to the present day in developing countries. One example is the kidnapping and coercion at gunpoint of indigenous people in Central America to work as plantation labourers in the region, where they are exposed to heavy pesticide loads and do backbreaking work for very little pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding
 
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While the British were against slavery at the time the were doing some thing not unlike slavery in Australia.

Indeed.

Would it be going too far to say that it isn't even really true that the Confederates fought for slavery? Rather, they fought for the right to go on calling it slavery. There were many forms of forced labour across the world in the late 19C and well into the 20C. It was ok just so long as you gave it a less offensive name. It was the word "slavery", rather than the thing itself, that got up people's noses.
 
Indeed.

Would it be going too far to say that it isn't even really true that the Confederates fought for slavery? Rather, they fought for the right to go on calling it slavery. There were many forms of forced labour across the world in the late 19C and well into the 20C. It was ok just so long as you gave it a less offensive name. It was the word "slavery", rather than the thing itself, that got up people's noses.

chattel Slavery seems to cause Moral panic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

Slavery by Another Name
History Background
By Nancy O’Brien Wagner
Bluestem Heritage Group

https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedben... by Another Name History Background_Final.pdf


Like most wars different people had different reasons for fighting in it.
 
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