AHC Slavers of America

With a 1763 POD or later, make it so that there is a United States of America that breaks from Britain, but they are evil slavers with slavery engrained in all states.

"Wait but slavery makes no economic sense in the North"

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't don't discuss it here. But the challenge is to make it ideologically baked in. That means if they aren't used for farmwork, have slaves in the North work as domestic servants for the rich (who are inherently unproductive to an agrarian).

So it means that people think slavery is "necessary" to avoid "the blacks controlling the legislature" or some other stupid racist reason you can make up.

The free blacks will be viewed as "exceptions" or something and no matter what they do, they can't be used as proof that slaves wouldn't act like wild animals when freed (or whatever justification you want to make up).

It must be so that up to 1870, there are 3 Americans supporting slavery for any reason other than "it's the status quo" (being a slave owner, racist reason, whatever) for every abolitionist (and yes, you can have lots of "I don't care").

Bonus points if the British manage to retain Ohio, a big point in the ARW and British end up using Indian states to keep American expansion limited to Tennessee, the equivalent of OTL Gulf states, "Mexico" or whatever breaks away from Spain if that isn't butterflied.

Bonus points if the British and Americans take more than 3 decades to reconcile the impending Slave Trade Act of 1807 (or whenever it comes in TTL, since there will be butterflies) and America's hunger for move slaves.

Bonus points if the British end up convincing much of Europe to put high "punishment" tariffs on America because of slavery and try to use that to Pressure America.
 
I have a few rough ideas for a slaveocratic US timeline.

Pre-independence PoDs
  • Have New Hampshire merge with Massachusetts. If you prevent Maine from becoming a state later that effectively means three Free States are rolled into one

Constitutional Convention PoDs
  • Have the 3/5th Compromise fail to go through and have slaves counted fully for the purposes of representation, as in slaves count equally as free citizens. For full wankage have them not count for the purposes of taxation which would be an incentive for having states to allow slavery.
  • Extend the deadline on the abolition of the slave trade. This would also delay the British abolition of the trade, it only made sense to do so if they were cooperating on the issue, and would have meant that slaves would be cheaper and plentiful.

Post constitution PoDs
  • Allow slavery in the Northwest Territories. Either from the get-go or have William Henry Harrison's attempt to get it legalised in the Indiana Territory succeed which only failed IOTL due to the territorial representatives, who were overwhelmingly up for it, blocking it in retaliation for his opposition to creating a separate Illinois territory (which happened anyway).
  • Keep slavery in New York. Of all the northern states it was the one with the strongest tradition of slavery. Keep them in the slavery club, which is a lot easier said than done, and that's a major political and economic powerhouse with a potentially strong slave lobby.
  • No Trail of Tears. The southern, slave-owning, settlers who seized the native land in the South could be redirected to the territories which may result in more slave states.
  • No Haitian Revolution. It was one of the strongest arguments against the idea that slavery was a stable societal order and was a strong ideological blow against the institution.
  • Get young Calhoun elected President. Preferably when he's still a nationalist so that pro-slavery ideals are a part of nationalist-leaning politics and doesn't become tied to secessionist or militant state-rights rhetoric. If possible get this to result in a stronger Federal government that is able to be kept under the control of pro-slavery and slavery-agnostic governments.
  • More successful expansion into potential Save State territory (Cuba, Mexico and Central America).
  • Break Britain's naval power/shift their foreign policy towards the continent. The British were one of the chief champions of abolition internationally and used their naval power and empire to clamp down on the trade and shut it off at its roots. Keep them from being able and/or willing to do that and that's a major international pressure on slavery removed.
  • Earlier boll weevil and/or later cotton gin preventing the rise of King Cotton. Whilst the cotton industry made slavery very profitable it also kept slavery concentrated in the south and sucked up most of the slave labour, meaning that they couldn't be used in other industries. Without King Cotton you could have a more diversified slave economy, possibly more slaves in the border Slave States which can prevent them becoming free states, and more slaves that can be brought into the territories and new states.

It won't be easy, there was a lot of political momentum and institutional support for abolition, but is might be possible to shift the balance of power in the US towards the Slave States. From there possibly try to trigger a reverse Civil War with the Free States breaking off. Either they can go their own way, in which case Slave States will have an overwhelming degree of control over the rump US, or they can be crushed and have the peculiar institution forced down their throat during reconstruction. Either way you have a nightmarish dystopia. It's worrying how much thought I have put into this.
 
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