Help with an earlier and more peaceful end to slavery in a US that includes Canada

I'm working on an idea for a timeline where Canada joins the Revolution, along with St. Johns Island and possibly Novia Scotia. In addition to these new states present at the drafting of the Constitution, I also have Georgia remaining a free state up until that time.

With the slave states at an even bigger disadvantage during the drafting of the Constitution, I'm wondering what type of deal can be reached with regard to ending slavery. Right now I'm leaning toward a three point plan:

1. Banning the import of slaves to the US.
2. Banning slavery in any new territory or State added to the Union.
3. All persons born after the ratification of the Constitution shall be free.

Would this be a reasonable approach, or would it be too much too soon? What do you think could be possible with these new/different states at the Constitutional Convention?
 

Asami

Banned
Really, with enough support, the anti-slavery states could get away with all three, since eventually, the first two were put into place OTL before the Civil War (in pieces)
 
I don't think your point 3 is viable at all.

What I could see is some combination of partially compensated emancipation (government bonds or land grants, something like that) along with gradual emancipation that allows slaveholders to sell their slaves elsewhere before the deadline date.
 

katchen

Banned
The legalized export of slaves to countries that still had legal slavery would be a real sweetener for Southerners, since it would enable them (and more importantly, northern bankers holding mortgages with slaves as collateral) to recoup their investment on those slaves. There would still be a need for an alternative source of cheap plantation labor for cotton production.
Europeans, even southern Italians would not respond too well to the discipline of plantation agriculture. The post Napoleonic Era may be a little too early for Chinese coolie labor. But cheap Egyptian coolie labor might be a real possibility given the troubles in Egypt between the Ottomans and Mehmet Ali and the always chronic land shortage in Egypt.
And unlike some farm workers, Egyptians would come to the US already knowing how to grow cotton. And many would be persecuted Coptic Christians and inclined to stay, even as plantation laborers in near slavery conditions.
 
Remember that slavery was still legal in Canada at that time. Theres even a few cases of slaves fleeing south to freedom. Although obviously it wasnt a big thing, mostly a handful of house slaves, that kind of thing.
 
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