WI Britain won the American Revolution?

You’re assuming that the north would not support the south. People tend group together when threatened by an external threat. Slavery would energize the south and supporting their brothers from an outside aggressor would bring the north in to support the south.
People in the west would most likely support it in order to get a free hand against the Native American’s.
There is no way Britain could beat this in a land war.

You have to remember that slavery was not popular in the north, but in no way did northerners care enough about it to have been major factor in not supporting the south.

With slavery as a founding reason the war was fought on it would be very hard to remove it.

As I said, I think the world would be a much more evil place because of it.

Honestly my reply last night was a quick one with what I feel would happen. Please don't insult me when I do a quick response without giving detailed support. The idea is to talk about things, not to give out insults.
 
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You can't make such an assertion.

The big land/slavery barons could very well be loyalists and thus well disposed to not upsetting a government system that benefits them.

An earlier abolition than the OTL US and a more conciliatory position (payment for freed slaves etc) would take a lot of the animus out of the debate.

Rebellion may have been discredited, secession won't have been the founding principle of the state etc etc.

That is before we get to the military aspects, so definitive statements are unsupported.

Salvery in south was about 2 things:
1. Making planters very rich (which you can't do without slaves) so giving them a payments would not cut it.
2. Allowing the dirt poor white Southren underclass to feel above blacks. People care more about status than wealth in the end.
 
Salvery in south was about 2 things:
1. Making planters very rich (which you can't do without slaves) so giving them a payments would not cut it.

They were already rich and the payment isn't about making them richer but simply paying them for their property instead of stealing it.

It is also quite possible to make money without slaves, somebody kept farming cotton to keep the US the worlds majority cotton producer into the 20th century.

2. Allowing the dirt poor white Southren underclass to feel above blacks. People care more about status than wealth in the end.

IF your second point is true then surely social status as loyalists or refined Imperial gentlemen would be enough to convince many plantation owners to keep their powder dry.
 
You’re assuming that the north would not support the south. People tend group together when threatened by an external threat. Slavery would energize the south and supporting their brothers from an outside aggressor would bring the north in to support the south.

Why do they view them as brothers?

Why does a New England merchant view a plantation owner as his brother and not a regular English merchant?

That sort of brotherly love was absent in, 1780, 1812 and 1861 even after a unifying successful war.

There is no way Britain could beat this in a land war.

It would be better if you provided reasoning behind your statements.

You have to remember that slavery was not popular in the north, but in no way did northerners care enough about it to have been major factor in not supporting the south.

What reason do they have to support the south that needs to be overridden?

And slavery was quite unpopular in certain circles, particualrly those circles who would be predisposed to breaking away.

Why are the northern colonies going to suffer through more death and destruction just to win the South the right to keep slaves?

How do they sell that to their public?

"We must take up arms, spend lives and treasure, break fealty and risk ruination in order to champion a system we have outlawed in our own provinces because we viewed it as inhumane."

Or how about

"Four score and seven years ago our ancestors rebelled in the name of liberty, and failed. So this time we thought we would try rebelling in the name of slavery and see how that works out.".

It probably wouldn't go down that well.
 
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