DBWI: Slavery in the USA after 1789

Your job here is to make a non-ASB TL in which slavery is not abolished by the Constitution and lasts until at least the early 1860s. You may use any POD after July 4th, 1776. Bonus if you can have some kind of military conflict over it.
 
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I think you would need the British to really drop the ball in the southern colonies so much that the Patriots could wrest them away from the Loyalists. With the union stretching from Montreal to Georgia instead of the southern boundary being the border of Virginia, slaveholding interests will have more power; yes, slavery existed in every state but Massachusetts IIRC in 1789, but it was only prominent south of Pennsylvania and most of the Virginian founding fathers were idealists and not entirely comfortable with slavery, and even then there was a lot of animosity from the planters because Jefferson and Washington prevented the state's delegates from walking out.
 
But when the Southners declared independance from Britan in 1812 due to the massive tax increases they agreed to drop slavery to join the Union.

Just because the South only desegregated in 1907 doesnt mean that they were a bunch of selfish racists who would fight a war over slavery.
 
But they only did that in the later stages of the war, when the British were on the verge of defeating them anyway. Good thing the Union did not allow itself to get involved with that.

But let's get on-topic. How exactly could the south adhere more to the rebellion to the point that it would be easier for the north to seize and hold them?
 

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You need the South to join the rebellion. For that you probably need Britain to start questioning slavery. An earlier Anti- Slavery Society perhaps?
 
But they only did that in the later stages of the war, when the British were on the verge of defeating them anyway. Good thing the Union did not allow itself to get involved with that.

But let's get on-topic. How exactly could the south adhere more to the rebellion to the point that it would be easier for the north to seize and hold them?

Well it did at the end. Of course by that time the Brits were so involved in their war in France they wanted to end their war in the Americas even at fairly high costs. The Confederacy of America was giving them enough problems without going to war with the United States of America as well.
 
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