Boll Weevil arrives pre Civil War

The Deep South as in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida have the climate to produce Sugar. They will diversify and decide to produce the more labor incentive Sugar cane.

It is true that the COASTAL regions of those States have the climate to produce sugar cane, that is not true of the majority of land in those States. There was a reason why sugar cane was not being produced there in OTL prior to the advent of cotton.

Also, the fact that sugar cane is MORE labor intensive, as you say, makes it LESS profitable than cotton. That's why the cotton gin made cotton profitable...by reducing the labor needed for its production. If they switch to a crop which is MORE labor intensive, and need to buy more slaves, their profit margins will drop, making slavery more vulnerable to the activities of Southern abolitionists.

Basically you won't have a big "shift to sugar cane" or "shift to tobacco" in these States, because, prior to the advent of cotton, they were ALREADY growing these crops in those regions where it was possible. And slavery was on it's way out, WHILE THESE CROPS WERE ALREADY BEING GROWN. If cotton doesn't take over, the trends which existed previously will continue. Planters will continue to grow tobacco and sugar and find it only marginally profitable, anti-slavery movements will continue to gain converts, and slavery will be abolished in the South, most likely in the 1830s.

These regions will, with the need of more slave laborers, see a rebirth of the slave trade in the Caribbean, and at the time will see a rise in the demand for slaves.

Actually, it was the South which was pushing for the abolition of the slave trade at the Constitutional Convention in OTL, and New England slave traders who forced the Convention to put in the provision which allowed it to continue to exist until 1808. And this was while they were ALREADY growing sugar cane and tobacco. You offer no reason why anything would change in this regard.

While regions to the north will produce more Tobacco and will need much larger crops to get a profit and thus need more free labor. More Slaves = more abolitionists. With the harsher treatment of slaves in the sugar plantations the worse abolitionist movements movements will push. I see a Civil war in the 1840's

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Why would they give black people the vote? There might be the oppurtunity for them to vote, but it would along the lines of property or personal wealth to make it limited to a few. The west might offer the vote in order to get more setterls, but they wouldn't be forcing the enitre nation to do so. So why secede over that? This of course doesn't even address the issue that the racism of the 19th century is still going to be there, only it is going to be focused more on a Back to Africa movement.

One word, Power.

It happened in OTL after the ACW. Some white politicians saw that they could gain a stronger power base by working with or supporting Free Black-men. The 15th Amendment came about in 1870 in OTL, there is no reason for something similar not to be passed, or attempted to be passed but for different reasons, in TTL.
 
If Slavery has collasped and lots of Blacks are becoming free men then they will automatically be counted as whole persons for the census. This Automatically gives the South more power.
 
If Slavery has collasped and lots of Blacks are becoming free men then they will automatically be counted as whole persons for the census. This Automatically gives the South more power.

True for the collective South in a federal election, but what about the individual white Southerner trying to get elected at a local or state level? Sure money and family influence will still play a part, but here you may not have the outright hatred that caused some white people from obstructing the black man's vote. Well, at least not as much in the south. In the North it may be a different story. This version of the ACW is not about freeing slaves, as it is about black suffrage, which has been entwined with the South's views on State's Rights.

Now this is not to say the South will necessarily see the black man as equal to a white man, but in a way it is a better way for it to eventually happen than it occured in OTL. Throw in a stronger push for Women's suffrage as well, you really get an interesting war based on wealth and the right to vote.
 
I'm thinking that with out the Collapse of Egypt's Cotton Market, Egypt will be stronger [& richer], It manages to hold on to It's Suez shares, and there is no British takeover.
?Or will the move to one main Export Crop, cause more poverty in Egypt.?
 
I'm thinking that with out the Collapse of Egypt's Cotton Market, Egypt will be stronger [& richer], It manages to hold on to It's Suez shares, and there is no British takeover.
?Or will the move to one main Export Crop, cause more poverty in Egypt.?

I could see this occurring. The higher profit from the cotton should satisfy European bankers, plus the added benefit of creating (possible) textile and shipping jobs for Egyptians. This would also mean the British don't gain control of the canal. Well, at least not because of this particular dept. So, now Egypt has a lessened degree of foreigners influencing them.

Because of this the Egyptian people may have a lower dissatisfaction with the government at the time, thus making nationalist groups slower to form.
 
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