What if the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were unable to reach a compromise on slavery and that resulted in the Southern states forming their own country, separate from the proposed United States of America?
What if the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were unable to reach a compromise on slavery and that resulted in the Southern states forming their own country, separate from the proposed United States of America?
In 1787, only Pennsylvania and the New England states had abolished slavery. Are these the places that secede and form a separate republic?
There is also the matter that most of the tax revenue of the new federal government is going to come from south of the Mason-Dixon line.
I don't think the 1787 convention ever seriously considered abolition. No country had abolished slavery yet at that point.
Not quite. Slavery had been abolished in England (used advisedly, it continued to be legal in Scotland until 1778 and the rest of the British Empire in 1830) in 1772 in the aftermath of the Somersett case. There is an entertaining discussion to be had as to the extent to which the AWI was a response to the Somersett case and therefore a war fought in part at least in defence of slavery.