Snake Featherston
Banned
But there's still going to be massive population issues even years later, if we judge by the Indian Wars. How well can the natives resist if they are still outnumbered? Even in the later 1800s Indians still suffered worse from these diseases IIRC. It'll be a lot closer though.
True, but Amerindians IOTL were by the late 18th Century well-accustomed to using firearms, they were unable to develop their own gunpowder. If in this ATL Amerindian peoples *do* develop that due to greater trade with Europe, by the time any alternate colonization starts the Amerindian political differences will be......unrecognizable. More situations like the Battle of the Little Bighorn where the Amerindians have better weapons than the Europeans they're fighting.
I did say "a chance."
Furthermore, the OTL slave system in what would become CONUS began that way. Slavery might have been established later on if the Barbadians hadn't set up plantations in South Carolina, but it might have been established somewhere else by some other means and suffered a different fate.
(Say instead it's tobacco in Virginia and the tobacco market implodes per OTL, taking slavery with it.)
Eh, I think that the best chance to avoid its perpetuation and the US Civil War itself is to somehow prevent need for a cotton gin.