No slave trade

Let’s say for some reason all the monarchies and other people in power such as the Pope in Europe all agree that slavery is morally wrong and thus they never enslave Africans. How will the discovery of the Americas go without an African slave trade? How will society, culture, and other things go without the Atlantic slave trade? What will the Caribbean be like?
 
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Well I'd say that without any slave trade the population of the caribbean would be a lot smaller and much more closely tied to europe since the population is now predominately white settlers instead of the otl native-afro-euro mix, also without african slaves a lot of places would just be mostly white so instead of institutional racism we would probably get some form of apathy towards other races in the americas (for instance since theres no blacks in america people would consider them foreigners and "alien" instead of otl where they were part of our society and viewed as inferior on top of not belonging here). I must say that tobacco and other cash crops are still open though and therefore we'd see more native deaths as they're gonna be used on such plantations and once the natives are out, white wage workers I guess? One of the factors that led to the slave trade was the need to replace natives since they were quickly disappearing.
 
Let’s say for some reason Asia was so good at growing sugar that Europe had no choice but to abandon slavery and just buy it instead. How will the discovery of the Americas go without an African slave trade? How will society, culture, and other things go without the Atlantic slave trade? What will the Caribbean be like?
Acording an old thread here...that could collapse as there few people unless they bring indian people early...
 

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Sport but even if Asia growing it as cheap as dirt the cost of trade with Ottoman Empire strangling Middle East and trade controlled by Venice and Genoa the cost in Europe still be expensive. That was the reason they travelled around Africa to get the product themselves. That means controlling it not buying it.

There still profit in growing it. You forget indentured servitude, and the slave trade in Africa, Asia and Middle East. So why it not e tend to America’s.
 
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