redlightning
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What if before the outbreak over the Civil War and also the 13th Amendment, one was proposed and ratified years before 1860 when a majority of free states had control over the White House and Congress?
What if before the outbreak over the Civil War and also the 13th Amendment, one was proposed and ratified years before 1860 when a majority of free states had control over the White House and Congress?
Like Mikestone8 said, it not be possible. There was too many slave states.
And even if that somehow happens, there will be earlier secession, civil war. But I don't know then has Southern states now better changes.
What if Virginia and otl 'border states' had abolished slavery. I wonder if there is a way of getting three quarters of states against the evil institutution.
I assume places like South Carolina and Mississippi would secede.
Trouble is, slavery was quite lucrative for VA et al, as their planters did very nicely out of selling surplus slaves to the lower South.
and even places like DE, where 90% of blacks were free, seem to have been very reluctant to abandon it - perhaps because the threat of re-enslavement was a useful way of reminding negroes to "keep their place". As of 1850 there seems little likelihood of any existing Slave State being ready to give up the institution.
Trouble is, slavery was quite lucrative for VA et al, as their planters did very nicely out of selling surplus slaves to the lower South.
and even places like DE, where 90% of blacks were free, seem to have been very reluctant to abandon it - perhaps because the threat of re-enslavement was a useful way of reminding negroes to "keep their place". As of 1850 there seems little likelihood of any existing Slave State being ready to give up the institution.
Actually, as late as 1831 there was a vote to end slavery or re-enslave the free blacks in the state. Eventually nothing came of it, but it was a really close vote.
Actually, as late as 1831 there was a vote to end slavery or re-enslave the free blacks in the state. Eventually nothing came of it, but it was a really close vote.
Wow, sounds like an RPG moral descision point. Either be good and abolish slavery or be evil and re-enslave everyone.