Like the title says what if the Ostend Manifesto had succeded and the urge for expansion by northerners led them to overlook the slavery issue
just for the sake of this lets say that Spain agrees to sell Cuba for $130 million adn it becomes a slave state their are a few things i am intersted in mostly
1) What would happen to the Civil war? Most likely the union navy would just blockade them imo, but what do you guys think?
2) Spanish American war results what would the USA get instead of Cuba since they already own it? My guess would be the Spanish half of Hispaniola
3) What Cuba would look like today, would it be independent? would it be a state? would they speak English?
4) How would Americans feel today and back then about all of the Spanish speaking, Part native, Catholic Cubans in their country?