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One of the great tragedies in history is New World chattel slavery where Africans were enslaved by European colonists and made to work plantations from Brazil to the Caribbean to the American south. So basically my question is what would the world look like if New World chattel slavery didn't exist? What POD would be necessary to stop it from happening and what would be the effects on world history? How would Europeans get the necessary labor to mass farm the cash crops such as tobacco, sugarcane, rice, cotton etc that were so profitable to the European empires? What would places like the American South, the Caribbean, Brazil, and other plantation colonies in the New World look like without slavery? Any thoughts are appreciated.
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