Until perhaps 1830 there were those in the South who openly opposed slavery for a variety of reasons.
In OTL it became a sectional issue (party because the slave owning class made debate on the issue in the South impossible and open opposition to slavery actively dangerous.)
In OTL there was the Civil War, the Reconstruction during which there was a serious attempt to make Civil Rights a reality and the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments which made Equal rights the Supreme law of the United States.
After 1876 large parts of the US Constitution were allowed to become a dead letter in a significant part of the US. However the existence of the Constitutional provisions was a significant element in the eventual gains made by Civil Rights Campaigners.
WI some Southern States, probably starting with Virginia but maybe some other places too abolished slavery.
By the 1860s it could well be that slavery was confined to Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and perhaps Florida.
I believe that slavery would have been abolished by 1900. There would have been no Civil War.
However I know that many Northern states after abolishing slavery kept strong laws discriminating against black people. Some made it effectively illegal for black people to be there at all. Other places resticted or totally denied voiting rights.
If slavery had been abolished in a gradual way would African Americans have formal legal equality by 2008?
Would and Obama be possible in such a time line?
In OTL it became a sectional issue (party because the slave owning class made debate on the issue in the South impossible and open opposition to slavery actively dangerous.)
In OTL there was the Civil War, the Reconstruction during which there was a serious attempt to make Civil Rights a reality and the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments which made Equal rights the Supreme law of the United States.
After 1876 large parts of the US Constitution were allowed to become a dead letter in a significant part of the US. However the existence of the Constitutional provisions was a significant element in the eventual gains made by Civil Rights Campaigners.
WI some Southern States, probably starting with Virginia but maybe some other places too abolished slavery.
By the 1860s it could well be that slavery was confined to Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and perhaps Florida.
I believe that slavery would have been abolished by 1900. There would have been no Civil War.
However I know that many Northern states after abolishing slavery kept strong laws discriminating against black people. Some made it effectively illegal for black people to be there at all. Other places resticted or totally denied voiting rights.
If slavery had been abolished in a gradual way would African Americans have formal legal equality by 2008?
Would and Obama be possible in such a time line?