Augustine Sedira
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What if the USA abolished slavery upon their declaration of independence and all slaves already in the states were freed? What would be the effects on American and global history?
I think any POD far back enough to allow this to happen is so far back that the US will probably never form to begin with. Bacon’s Rebellion (a full century before the Declaration) is probably the last chance to prevent the entrenchment of the slave economy.What if the USA abolished slavery upon their declaration of independence and all slaves already in the states were freed? What would be the effects on American and global history?
A split this early and it's likely you don't get a Union, just a bunc of independent states.So if the USA were to abolish slavery upon the end of the war in 1783, the southern states would refuse sparking a possible split amongst the states ending with a northern union and a southern one. Maybe a war breaks out between the two with either the north or the south winning. Following this, the USA spends its time repairing its economy but would in the long run benefit due to industrialization taking place within both the south and the north. If the north wins, they might form a black state in Florida to avoid tensions between them and the southern whites.
Would this be a reasonable scenario?
If the abolishment of slavery was to take place after the Act of Confederacy (cannot remember the document which kept the states intact), would the union survive.A split this early and it's likely you don't get a Union, just a bunc of independent states.
Perhaps the abolitionists propose a gradual abolition of slavery with compensation for slaveholders. The Constitution can say something like "No person born after the year 17-- can be held in bondage and all persons held in bondage by the year 18-- shall be emancipated with compensation provided to the holder at a rate to be determined by Congress."
So if the USA were to abolish slavery upon the end of the war in 1783, the southern states would refuse sparking a possible split amongst the states ending with a northern union and a southern one. Maybe a war breaks out between the two with either the north or the south winning. Following this, the USA spends its time repairing its economy but would in the long run benefit due to industrialization taking place within both the south and the north. If the north wins, they might form a black state in Florida to avoid tensions between them and the southern whites.
Would this be a reasonable scenario?
A split this early and it's likely you don't get a Union, just a bunc of independent states.
You gotta have a massive population boost in the south first. Then slaves become less necessary, fields are smaller and people can farm personally
You gotta have a massive population boost in the south first. Then slaves become less necessary, fields are smaller and people can farm personally
Bol weevil ruins cotton and something similar occurs to tobacco making slavery as a business model difficult, expensive and pointless. This happens early on so the bullshit justification of slavery isn't well established allowing for Abolitionist to easily shut the enterprise down. Likely, if this happens racism against African Americans would still occur and their population would be lower due to immigration restrictions
Sure the South would still be agricultural but that doesn't expressly mean that the South would still be infatuated with Slavery, there are agricultural societies that don't rely on Slavery.Yet the South would still be mainly agricultural, and agriculture was labour-intensive. A farmhand who had to work for nothing would still be cheaper than one who had to be paid.
And if a decline in the cotton industry causes the price of slaves to fall, then more people can afford them, so the number of slaveholders would increase.