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The colonists in the 13 American colonies that were to become the United States demanded "no taxation without representation". What if Britain had accepted those demands? Obviously, in retrospect it was a mistake not to accept it, as they lost the colonies. They would of course have become independent at some later point, like all British colonies. To me it seems likely that they would have joined Canada to become a united North American country. But what about slavery? Would it have taken longer time for Britain to outlaw slavery, as they would have feared losing the Southernmost colonies? Would a scenario where the Northernmost of the 13 states formed a country with the Canadian provinces, while the Southernmost colonies formed a separate state be likely? (of course if there were to become a Civil War in such a situation, the North would have been even stronger, as it also had Canada.)
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