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What if they play the Loyalist card and offer to return to the British Empire and recognize Queen Victoria as their ruler ? How would the British Empire react ? What arguments could be brought forward ? Maybe common interest in cotton trade ? Slavery had been abolished in 1807, so there would be legal difficulties regarding this question. Also woud the monarchy be rejected certainly in the South , but maybe if the Confederates are pressued enough, they might consider certain changes ? Maybe instead of joining they simply become a protectorate of the British Empire, still goverened by a president and a government of their own.
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