Challenge: Slavery abolished before 1793

How could slavery end in all of the United States by 1793, with a POD of no earlier than 1764?

What if the South was extremely Loyalist, is decisively defeated, and slaveowners are pinned as traitors and punished?
 
I think I've come up with a scenario where this could happen. The War of the Regulation is more of a serious threat to the British, so they make concessions to the plantocrats (which also angers the northern colonies, just like the concessions to Quebec did).

When the OTL American Revolution begins, the North is more patriot and the South is more loyalist, so the Patriots see strategic benefit in freeing slaves, which they do, making the South even more loyalist. The freed slaves and northern officers fighting for the Patriots also lead to victory in the South.

After the war, southern leaders are seen as complete traitors, and freed slaves are seen as patriots, so slavery is ended nationwide in the new United States.
 
I think I've come up with a scenario where this could happen. The War of the Regulation is more of a serious threat to the British, so they make concessions to the plantocrats (which also angers the northern colonies, just like the concessions to Quebec did).

When the OTL American Revolution begins, the North is more patriot and the South is more loyalist, so the Patriots see strategic benefit in freeing slaves, which they do, making the South even more loyalist. The freed slaves and northern officers fighting for the Patriots also lead to victory in the South.

After the war, southern leaders are seen as complete traitors, and freed slaves are seen as patriots, so slavery is ended nationwide in the new United States.

This is definitely an interesting scenario, TBH. It would certainly avoid the disaster of OTL's Civil War which rendered this country broken in two(and the consequences of which arguably still affect us today).
 
I think I've come up with a scenario where this could happen. The War of the Regulation is more of a serious threat to the British, so they make concessions to the plantocrats (which also angers the northern colonies, just like the concessions to Quebec did).

When the OTL American Revolution begins, the North is more patriot and the South is more loyalist, so the Patriots see strategic benefit in freeing slaves, which they do, making the South even more loyalist. The freed slaves and northern officers fighting for the Patriots also lead to victory in the South.

After the war, southern leaders are seen as complete traitors, and freed slaves are seen as patriots, so slavery is ended nationwide in the new United States.
Problem is will the South still secede from Britain in this new circumstance?
 
Problem is will the South still secede from Britain in this new circumstance?

They might not, but there would still be some patriot activity even before northern patriots start marching south. Also Virginia had so many founding fathers, and such a desire to expand west, that it will probably join the revolution anyway.
 
They might not, but there would still be some patriot activity even before northern patriots start marching south. Also Virginia had so many founding fathers, and such a desire to expand west, that it will probably join the revolution anyway.

I'd presume places like the Carolinas and Georgia stay loyalist?IIRC,loyalist activity was pretty strong in those areas.
 

Saphroneth

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Okay, let's try this:

1) Slavery is not established by positive law in the US. It's left as no-actual-legal-status one way or the other.
2) British North America is incorporated as parliamentary constituencies. They're unfairly large per MP, but it's representation.
3) Therefore, it's part of England. Therefore the Somerset ruling applies.
4) Slavery is not legal.
 
Okay, let's try this:

1) Slavery is not established by positive law in the US. It's left as no-actual-legal-status one way or the other.
2) British North America is incorporated as parliamentary constituencies. They're unfairly large per MP, but it's representation.
3) Therefore, it's part of England. Therefore the Somerset ruling applies.
4) Slavery is not legal.

Oh dear this is going to de-rail really fast!
 
Okay, let's try this:

1) Slavery is not established by positive law in the US. It's left as no-actual-legal-status one way or the other.
2) British North America is incorporated as parliamentary constituencies. They're unfairly large per MP, but it's representation.
3) Therefore, it's part of England. Therefore the Somerset ruling applies.
4) Slavery is not legal.

If that happened the southern colonies would probably rebel early.
 
Simple solution: the south doesn't join. Maybe canada does, instead. When this alt-US forms, it comprises no states that depend on slavery, so they have no objection to banning the institution.

Similar situation: The Constitution is only accepted by non-slave states, resulting in a velvet divorce as two nations form next to each other.
 
Would the South industrialize at equal capability to the North in this scenario? Double the industrial capacity of the US by the mid 19th century?
 
Well, it won't quite satisfy the OP, but I have an idea:

Ban slavery in the Territory Southwest of the Ohio River. If this happens, then the only possibility for new slave states are in Florida or the Caribbean. This will ultimately lead to slavery being phased out. Full racial equality likely won't come into play right away either, but it's probably the scenario which best satisfies the POD requirement.
 
IIRC,there were other geographical factors that led to the north becoming more industrialized.

Yeah but there are plenty of rivers in the South and a fair amount of natural resources. If slavery is abolished in 1783 as per the "Loyalist South defeated and slavery abolished" scenario, there's plenty of time before the serious second age of industrialization begins, for the small cottage industries in the north to pop up in the south as well.
 
Remember that in 1793, slavery was still legal everywhere in North America except Massachusetts. (Although the other New England states had passed gradual emancipation laws saying any child born of slaves was free).

Getting the whole US abolitionist by then? Wow, that's a huge, huge, huge challenge.
 
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