AHC & WI: Delay the Slavery Abolition Act until the mid-1860s

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
OTL, the British Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1834. Your challenge is to delay this development until the mid-1860s with a POD after 1785.

What are the consequences for Africa, the Caribbean, British-Brazilian relations, the Great Trek, British-Confederate relations, the general cause of abolitionism, the global economy, and Portuguese and Spanish slavery policies and those of other countries which made treaties relating to slavery with Britain?
 
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Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Is this possible given the British public's distaste for slavery? How strong would a slaveholding class have to be to avoid the abolition act for another thirty years? How could they become that strong?
 
Is this possible given the British public's distaste for slavery? How strong would a slaveholding class have to be to avoid the abolition act for another thirty years? How could they become that strong?
Well, if somehow the slave rebellion in Haiti is defeated/stopped, the UK might pick up the island from France after the French revolutionary wars/Napoleonic wars are finished. I guess there'd be a strong economic incentive to keep slavery then.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Well, if somehow the slave rebellion in Haiti is defeated/stopped, the UK might pick up the island from France after the French revolutionary wars/Napoleonic wars are finished. I guess there'd be a strong economic incentive to keep slavery then.

*sigh* That's a lot of butterflies I'd have to account for...

(I'd already planned something for the Caribbean.)
 
PoD January-February 1785 (just within the limits): As William Wilberforce is returning to England with Isaac Milner, reading The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul and beginning to consider turning his life over to Christian principles, his carriage crashes and he dies. I'm not sure how far the abolitionist movement would be put back, but I think the fall of slavery would be significantly postponed.
 
The Sugar Barons keep more of their power than OTL, and Parliament is never reformed, ending with this result. Plausible.

Question: Does the slave trade continue past OTL, or just slavery itself?
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
The Sugar Barons keep more of their power than OTL, and Parliament is never reformed, ending with this result. Plausible.

Question: Does the slave trade continue past OTL, or just slavery itself?

Slavery itself. The most important thing I guess is that there are still British slave owners as a significant political force by the mid-1860s.

And there is going to be much less parliamentary reform in my TL under Kings Frederick and Ernest Augustus and a longer-lived Lord Liverpool and a few Orange Lodge Ultra-Tory PMs.
 
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Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Maybe if Britain keeps more of France's Caribbean possessions (Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana are kept by Britain at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in exchange for the return of other territories) it could strengthen the sugar barons.
 
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