Hello fellow members of the Board, I need some help trying to work out some Ideas about the expansion of Slavery in the Lone Star Republic, had it not been annexed in 1845? I know alot of timelines, think that Texas would have eventually branched off from the Confederates in a CSA Victory timeline...but I need an earlier POD lol. Could the Pro-Slavery faction in the Texan Legistlature really had enough gall to reactivate the African Slave Trade? What would continued expansion southward into Mexico in the succeeding decades effect the grouth of Slavery? Would an Indpendent Texas funnel more Southern Fillibusters who would want to use Texas as a launching pad for adventures in South America? Would a Peonage system really be sustainable if the Texans started using hired Mestizo labor instead of higher priced blacks? Could an Independent Texas stop the Civil War from happening? Potentially how long could Slavery last in Texas?(Might the Boll Weevil infestation of the 1890's be the final straw in the Peculiar institution?)Any other ideas on what possible ramifications of Slavery in an Independent ROT?