Slave State Kansas

WI Kansas Became a slave state? Would this ever happen? Would Kansas really embrace slavery to its full extent? Would Kansas Seceed During the Civil War? If it did would it present the Confederates a distinict advantage? Could it be a base to split the United States in Two?
 
In the case it did became Slave and pro-Slave where a sure majority at the start of the Civil War, it could very well secede, which would make Missouris seccesion easier.

But that's just my opinion, I'm not an expert in USA's history.
 
It is unlikely that Kansas would have become a slave state (Kansas approved its free state constitution by a 2-1 margin), and even if it did it would not have seceded.

Support for secession was directly tied to the proportion of slavery within the state. Thus, in the Deep South dominated by slave based plantations, the states quickly seceded. In the Upper South, where slavery was widespread, but not to the extent of the Cotton Belt, the states eventually seceded once it was obvious Lincoln was sending troops. In the Border States which had some slavery, but whose economies were not based on it, none seceded. In those areas of seceded states where slavery was not dominant (mainly the Appalachia country), the sentiment was always pro-Union and anti-Confederate.

A slave state Kansas would not be dominated by slavepower interests. The slave holders would not be able to force through secession. Kansas did not have a geography conducive to plantation economies. Only a small area near the Missouri River was viable for it. Kansas will remain majority free with a distinct slavery minority. The only way slavery would be approved is becauseof a willingness to compromise and make peace with a minority of the population, and the slaveholders would need to come up with something else in exchange. The slaveholders would never dominate the state.

The overwhelming population will remain loyal to the union and fight for it. In fact, in this scenario, I would not be surprised if within 1-2 years Kansas would approve a new constitution to abolish slavery.

Kansas is way too isolated from the basis of Confederate power to play any role in the civil war. The Confederates couldn't even keep the trans-Mississippi open IOTL. The Union will still control the Mississippi River relatively soon and cut off the Confederate west. They won't be able to project power. Some bushwacker guerilla groups may operate, but they'll quickly be eliminated in Kansas. The war pretty much happens as it does IOTL.
 
The likelihood of Kansas becoming a slave state is extremely low.

The pro-slave contingent was good at getting people to raid or to show up to vote while pretending to live in Kansas but extremely poor at getting settlers so while excessive violence and the shameful behavior of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan might keep the population too low to apply for statehood the odds are extremely good that a pro-slave constitution would not be acceptable to Congress.

In the unlikely event of Kansas somehow entering the Union as a slave state the result would be a state 'government' so lacking in popular legitimacy that it might well try to secede only to be put down by the majority with the support from the army.

After which the state constitution and many other laws are annulled retroactively and probably large amounts of territory acquired by slave supporters under uncertain conditions are confiscated and awarded to the rightful owners, or what are alleged to be the rightful owners.

Given some of the laws that the pro-slavery voters wanted passed any pretense that they were standing up for their own rights rather than trying to take away the rights of others will also take a serious hit.
 
It's somewhat likely - Buchanan forces the Lecompton Constitution through Congress over the objections of the Republicans, Northern Democrats, and people of Kansas. (One way to get this, I think, is to have Douglas compromise his principles again and not lead the opposition; this might mean he loses to Lincoln in 1858.) In that case, the only question about Kansas is how long it takes before the state government is overthrown in favor of a new one that bans slavery. If they make the least move toward secession, I'd say it would happen then with the war serving as a great excuse for Lincoln to ratify the new government.
 
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