Plausibility Check: North Atlantic Draka

OTL, the pro-slavery lobby was able to delay the end of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire for years due to their wealth--at one point, they paid for many MPs to go to the opera rather than vote on abolition measures.

In OTL, their power came from the West Indies and sugar production there.

In a TL where the American Revolution never happened or was crushed, might it be plausible that the planters of the OTL American South could join their wealth and power to the pro-slavery West Indies lobby to keep the slave trade and slavery going within the British Empire for decades longer than OTL.

How plausible is that? It makes sense, given the sheer wealth the hypothetical uber-slave-lobby would command. Plus churches in the OTL American South developed religious justifications for slavery that could be exported to Britain to counter Wilberforce and company's Christian anti-slavery arguments.

Bonus points if the Revolution is crushed and "Enlightenment Humanism" is temporarily discredited along with it so TTL's British Empire, nobody sees any moral conflict between desiring freedom for themselves and denying it to others and anti-slavery agitation is considered seditious libel (in Britain but not in the U.S., true statements could be libel if they allegedly threatened the public peace).
 
If I remember correctly, when he was still on this forum Chris posted a map exactly like this, where the Draka equivalent was in North America while a democratic government flourished in South Africa. I don't remember much about the rest of the world.

If the American Revolution was crushed I could see the greater power of slavery, with the Southern states and West Indies dominating the government, but I can't imagine a North American Draka simply because the original Draka was so ridiculously overpowered.

EDIT: I think it was Diamond, I don't remember Chris making any maps ever.

EDIT2: Found it: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=9580&highlight=Drakeia
 
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If the American Revolution was crushed I could see the greater power of slavery, with the Southern states and West Indies dominating the government, but I can't imagine a North American Draka simply because the original Draka was so ridiculously overpowered.

I was going for the British Empire as a whole being the Draka, complete with the uber-slavery and suppression of anti-slavery elements.
 
That sounds at least vaguely plausible, particularly if properly wedded with the "White man's burden" concept that basically drove British politics well into the 20th Century. If properly executed this could be legitimately terrifying, especially since OTL Britain was basically unchallenged on the world stage at the heignht of its power. Certainly this is more viable then the scenario outlined in the actual Draka books.
 
That sounds at least vaguely plausible, particularly if properly wedded with the "White man's burden" concept that basically drove British politics well into the 20th Century. If properly executed this could be legitimately terrifying, especially since OTL Britain was basically unchallenged on the world stage at the heignht of its power. Certainly this is more viable then the scenario outlined in the actual Draka books.

I've got a dystopia percolating now.

Maybe "Jeffersonian" insurgents planting bombs in East Coast cities, helping slaves escape, etc. while British slave-hunters ravage West Africa with helicopter gunships?

Somewhere along the way, William Wilberforce got his face cut off for seditious libel in the style of the Tudor era.
 
How tolerant would the British Empire be of Revolutionary exile states beyond the Appalachians?

I've got an idea for at least two, one in the north that's virulently anti-slavery and a Republic of Texas that's slave-owning and more conservative (i.e. doesn't antagonize the British) and serves as a buffer between the Colonies and Spanish Mexico.
 
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