Free Tennessee and Kentucky

What if Tennessee and Kentucky had been admitted as Free States instead of Slave States? The votes to do so were pretty close in real life, and Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery from Western territories in 1784 (rejected by one vote), could have some effect here, too. Also, these two states aren't exactly ideal for a slave economy either, unlike states built for plantations like Alabama.

How might such a thing affect the Free State-Slave State balance? Is it broken earlier, or are less States from the North admitted? How could this affect settlement of other states, if people coming from these areas aren't as pro-slavery (or inversely, if pro-slavery people who would settle in TN or KY otl decide to settle elsewhere)? And when the Civil War comes along, how could an almost certainly fully Union Tennessee affect things?
 
What if Tennessee and Kentucky had been admitted as Free States instead of Slave States? The votes to do so were pretty close in real life, and Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery from Western territories in 1784 (rejected by one vote), could have some effect here, too. Also, these two states aren't exactly ideal for a slave economy either, unlike states built for plantations like Alabama.

How might such a thing affect the Free State-Slave State balance? Is it broken earlier, or are less States from the North admitted? How could this affect settlement of other states, if people coming from these areas aren't as pro-slavery (or inversely, if pro-slavery people who would settle in TN or KY otl decide to settle elsewhere)? And when the Civil War comes along, how could an almost certainly fully Union Tennessee affect things?

Didn't a lot of early Texas settlers come from Tennessee? Maybe in this scenario Texas is primarily settled by free spoilers too.
 
Most likely it would probably result in no Civil War, as the south wouldn't have nearly enough slave states to count on, and likely with such a free/state balance as this some of the slave states could go free between 1800 and whenever Emancipation is declared.

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What if Tennessee and Kentucky had been admitted as Free States instead of Slave States? The votes to do so were pretty close in real life, and Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery from Western territories in 1784 (rejected by one vote), could have some effect here, too. Also, these two states aren't exactly ideal for a slave economy either, unlike states built for plantations like Alabama.

Tennessee is perfect for a plantation economy. While the best land (along the Mississippi, and the western third of the state in general) was not technically part of the state in the 1790s (hadn't been legally purchased from the natives at that point), what is nowadays Middle Tennessee was perfectly suited for slavery with the rich soils of the Nashville area and the counties to the south. Clearly, Tennessee could easily be set up for a plantation economy, and the potential of the Mississippi lowlands only ensures its status as a slave state.

Didn't a lot of early Texas settlers come from Tennessee? Maybe in this scenario Texas is primarily settled by free spoilers too.

Sam Houston owned slaves, for what it's worth. But the role of slavery in the Texas Revolution and Texas's own fertile land for slavery means you have a similar issue to Tennessee.
 
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