To be worse the Brits would have to be better. If the early 1700s Church of England had been less openly corrupt, John Wesley's Methodists would still be C of E. A great moral revival in England from this enthused C or E would make for better British colonial governors who capably encourage colonials, not just to stay loyal, but to conquer French North America. Washington takes Fort Duqesne and makes mad Benjamins in real estate for the Virginia Burgess. Strengthened by loyal America, Britain winds up the wars with the French too easily to give nicey-nice stabilizing peace terms as in our timeline; Castlereagh's 100,000 pound bribe to the Spanish to abolish Spanish slavery triggers revolts across Spanish America, as in our timeline, but with no American revolution and an uninspiring, easily squashed French revolution, Bolivar just doesn't feel inspired to plow the sea sowing revolution among Indios or Mestizo. He likes the British. And in this timeline Castlereagh doesn't hate slavery and love stability, he loves conquest.
With Bolivar for Viceroy, the Brits conquer Spanish America and enlarge the slave plantations to be inclusive of most of the population. Without an America revolution, patriotic Brits don't hate 'the loudest Yelps for liberty coming from the floggers of Negroese' and loyal America isn't yelping for liberty anyway; Wilberforce, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson are busy keeping the C of E honest and enthusiastic and never get around to wanting slavery abolished. The empire builders link up the slave plantations across the whole New World with railroads and steam-pumped slave-dug mines. I'm thinking that's dystopian enough, but a British empire that powerful could enslave the rest of the world too. Yeesh.
With Bolivar for Viceroy, the Brits conquer Spanish America and enlarge the slave plantations to be inclusive of most of the population. Without an America revolution, patriotic Brits don't hate 'the loudest Yelps for liberty coming from the floggers of Negroese' and loyal America isn't yelping for liberty anyway; Wilberforce, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson are busy keeping the C of E honest and enthusiastic and never get around to wanting slavery abolished. The empire builders link up the slave plantations across the whole New World with railroads and steam-pumped slave-dug mines. I'm thinking that's dystopian enough, but a British empire that powerful could enslave the rest of the world too. Yeesh.