Would the Confederacy have enslaved Mexicans?

In a scenario where the confederates were victorious in the civil war and ended up fighting a war thereafter with Mexico and taking over some its territory. If suddenly an influx of Mexicans were now to be living in the confederacy what would have stopped them from being turned into slaves?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe the enshrinement of slavery in the confederate constitution was overtly race based where it laid out only people of African decent shall be enslaved?

Would we have seen Mexican and/or maybe Cuban slaves (if Cuba was invaded as some wanted).
 
Mestizos/Castizos never had non-white status in the US. It'd be unlikely and cause a fervor across the Americas and Atlantic if this were attempted.
 
Mestizos/Castizos never had non-white status in the US. It'd be unlikely and cause a fervor across the Americas and Atlantic if this were attempted.

Legally maybe but socially I believe they were definitely seen as non-whites. In the propaganda images of the 19th century Mexicans were often caricatured as being dark skinned semi-savages.

Also in a confederate government specifically, I don't see white status being conferred to most Mexicans.
 
It's possible that they would be "residents" rather than citizens if they didn't assimilate, but I think that enslavement would not happen. For ne thing, Catholic Europe would instantly be hostile--enslaving "good catholics" would piss off every catholic nation in the world
 
If there was money to be made and there was a shortage of slaves, in a second.
But the consequences would have been catastrophic. It would have alienated all of Central and South America as well as a Catholic Church not to mention the British Empire.
 
It's possible that they would be "residents" rather than citizens if they didn't assimilate, but I think that enslavement would not happen. For ne thing, Catholic Europe would instantly be hostile--enslaving "good catholics" would piss off every catholic nation in the world

Were most of the slaves in Latin America not catholic though? Brazil and Cuba (Spain) would have still been practicing slavery at that point as catholic nations, with technically catholic slaves.

So again was it purely an only "African=natural born slave" mentality?
 
Were most of the slaves in Latin America not catholic though? Brazil and Cuba (Spain) would have still been practicing slavery at that point as catholic nations, with technically catholic slaves.

So again was it purely an only "African=natural born slave" mentality?

I think most of the "catholic" slaves were converts, or descendants of converts. Bringing new people into slavery is different from keeping the status quo. Besides, if some of those countries wanted to make things difficult for the CSA, I'm sure that Uncle Sam would help them plan a FINE Remembrance Day festival.

I think that "Remembrance Day" in the TL-191 series was a brilliant idea as a way to keep the fires burning until they consume the south in righteous flames.
 
Were most of the slaves in Latin America not catholic though? Brazil and Cuba (Spain) would have still been practicing slavery at that point as catholic nations, with technically catholic slaves.

So again was it purely an only "African=natural born slave" mentality?

This makes an interesting point, but with the dissemination of Voodoo and the rise of hybrid faiths along with more traditional Christian denominations slavery became very much a melanin-fixed stratification. Despite this, I can not see a victorious Confederacy enslaving Mestizoes or Native Americans despite the skin differences as that would draw ire from Latin countries along with calls to stop the expansion of slavery in its otherwise twilight hours. Ironically I could see the Confederacy expanding low/no cost labor by becoming a police state with different levels of trustees, perhaps a Stalinist state with pickin' fields instead of or in addition to killing fields. Make it a multigenerational gulag based on a party structure or indebtedness akin to coal miners and scrip to generate a slaveholding country perhaps ironically no longer based on race but social/party strata.
 
If there was money to be made and there was a shortage of slaves, in a second.
But the consequences would have been catastrophic. It would have alienated all of Central and South America as well as a Catholic Church not to mention the British Empire.

Yeah. Literally every country South America would assume they're next, and not without justification. The USA would draw comparisons to pagan Rome or ancient Parthia; just vast maws fed by the blood and tears of enslaved and conquered peoples. Catholics and Protestants in the North would be driven mad with fury. Might not be a bad POD for whole chunks of the North to secede, TBH.
 
Wouldent it just make more sense to just coopt the peonage system of the hacendas in terms of the Mexican power class? Most of the benefits of slavery without disrupting the status quo or ticking off the rest of the world
 
I doubt that CSA is able expand anywhere when USA is around. CSA might take Cuba but USA hardly is going allow CSA to take North Mexico.

But if CSA is able somehow to take NM it hardly is going make Mexicans as slaves. It would cause too much resistance and surely would piss many other nations. More plausible is that Mexicans would become second-class citizens and cheap labor force.
 
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