AHC/WI: Slavery Abolished in 1841

Ok so this one I'm expecting is ASB right off the bat but I'm curious on the board's opinions. I've just started a game of Victoria II as the US and got the rather surprising offer to outlaw slavery in 1841 following Mexico's victory in the Texas War of Independence. What kind of circumstances would be necessary to lead to the peaceful abolition of slavery in the US by 1841?
 
The only thing I can think of is that there is somewhere to put a large number of freed slaves and no need for them in picking cotton.

The fear was always they were going to revolt if freed, so you have to remove this fear.
 
Well, one way would be to nip the Revolution in the bud and keep the US a part of the British Empire. British abolition (1833 iOTL) could be delayed somewhat by the greater number of planters, but it could also be sped up because the French Revolution made most of the British establishment scared of any proposed social reforms.

Alternatively, perhaps you could postpone the discovery of the cotton gin?
 
Well, I started on that path with gradual compensated emancipation by the 1840s in "Created Equal," so you could probably speed things up a few years with a 11796 POD like I used; what touches it off is a very unusual war between the states that was just that - several states fighting each other before federal troops are sent in (think the Toledo War but down South & larger) Theoretically that could come earlier.

Maybe my POD somehow leads to the boll weevil coming and destroying the cotton fields, making it economically untenable; could it come a century early? I'm not sure when it came in other places. Finally, you need a place for them as noted, but the area held by the U.S. still seems massive, and some could aruge that the freed slaves would be the best colonists as buffers against the natives.

Earlier PODs, of course, can also apply - Virginia abolishing it in the 1780s, perhaps as mentioned no ARW. I'm not sure if you can get one post-1796, though Adams winning in 1800 is a thought as his pushing for admission of Louisiana Territory as totally free is a big step. I just don't know if his winning in 1800 is that easy without a Jefferson win in 1796.
 
Could the US pass a sort of "Law of the Free Womb" like Brazil did? Say in the early 1800s? Basically it meant current slaves stayed slaves, but anyone born to a slave was a freedman. It'd basically be a way to kill out slavery slowly. Basically, the Brazil's law was intended to provide freedom to all newborn children of slaves, and slaves of the state or crown. Slaveholders of the children’s parents were to provide care for the children until the age of 21, or turn them over to the state in return for monetary compensation.
 
I actually developed a rough TL idea doing this a few years ago, in a thread on the US Constitution doing without the slave trade clause, that also saw slavery restricted in the new western states and a delayed *Whitney* Cotton Gin. I can easily see such a country, in the years following the British Empire abolishing slavery, deciding to follow suit sooner rather than later.
 
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