If the colonies stayed as part of the British Empire, how would the slave trade develop? Would the Empire become as anti slave as it was in OTL, or would it now have a vested interest in continuing it with the Southern colonies?
Doesn't matter. Insert whatever sounds plausible to you. Point of the thread is to discuss how the slave trade is affected.How is the Revolution side-stepped?
Doesn't matter. Insert whatever sounds plausible to you. Point of the thread is to discuss how the slave trade is affected.
If the colonies stayed as part of the British Empire, how would the slave trade develop? Would the Empire become as anti slave as it was in OTL, or would it now have a vested interest in continuing it with the Southern colonies?
To be honest.....I'm afraid there's not a lot of good news in that regard; It might end around 1806-07 as it did in our history, but sadly, there's a rather strong chance it may last a good bit longer, with the Southern colonies holding them back: I'd put the most likely end at anywhere between 1825-40, with slavery itself ending entirely between 1845 to 1875. If there's one thing that can be said, the success of the Revolution no doubt humbled Britain and gave a *huge* boost to the abolitionist movement in the rest of the Empire that remained(which became apparent from about 1790 onwards).
Why wouldn't the slave trade end in 1806-1807? The southern US was fine with it OTL, for the reasons The Kiat stated. I don't see any real reason they would fight against it in this TL either. Hell, the colonial legislature of South Carolina passed a bill ending the trade in 1770 (the governor vetoed it).
I don't agree with the second point either, abolitionism would have gotten just as strong in Britain and the northern states, but that doesn't mean they could have done anything about it.
Maybe, but that's largely because they were no longer part of the British Empire. Are we really so sure that would remain the same in a no ARW scenario?
But the problem is, the Revolution failing, and Britain being humbled, was exactly one of the major reasons why abolitionism took off after 1781. Without that key factor, it would be a major challenge to even still entirely end the slave trade right around OTL's date, let alone slavery as a whole.