Not without a Constitutional amendment. Slavery was protected as a right in the Confederate Constitution. There was also no Supreme Court of the Confederate States, which was likely a deliberate omission. A Supreme Court decision could, in theory, have interpreted the right to slavery a much different way in the future. By keeping power in the hands of Congress, which would have been dominated by the wealthy planter class, slavery would go unchallenged for many generations. So you're essentially relying on a demographic shift that would be against slavery as a form of labor.
Actually, I think the Confederacy would be more likely to loudly proclaim they'd ended slavery by passing a law than to actually improve the position of black slaves.Abolish in the sense that it would be ended by the passage of a law? Never.
Abolish in the sense that it would change from outright chattel slavery to some lesser form of oppression? Yes eventually.
No it does not.This belongs in Non Political Chat, but it has a poll so it will most likely be closed.
Seeing as many Confederates were also mainly fighting for states' rights, the Confederacy would probably abolish slavery eventually, but probably later than most other countries (mid 20th century?).
I think it's likely that they would - after much internal debate - start doing things that are "totally not" slavery, and keep doing those little changes ("intentured servitude", "apprenticeship") until they got to something which British public opinion would reluctantly accept. Definitely well behind the Western Civilization curve on the matter, but not quite wilfully ignoring it.
(I'm sort of interested in where slavery goes in the union in a CSA independence...)
Not without a Constitutional amendment. Slavery was protected as a right in the Confederate Constitution. There was also no Supreme Court of the Confederate States, which was likely a deliberate omission. A Supreme Court decision could, in theory, have interpreted the right to slavery a much different way in the future. By keeping power in the hands of Congress, which would have been dominated by the wealthy planter class, slavery would go unchallenged for many generations. So you're essentially relying on a demographic shift that would be against slavery as a form of labor.
Truth, but not really relevant - as I've said elsewhere, judging the Confederacy by their constitution as of 1861 (or 1865) is like judging the USA by the Articles of Confederation.The cold truth.
Not without a Constitutional amendment. Slavery was protected as a right in the Confederate Constitution. There was also no Supreme Court of the Confederate States, which was likely a deliberate omission. A Supreme Court decision could, in theory, have interpreted the right to slavery a much different way in the future. By keeping power in the hands of Congress, which would have been dominated by the wealthy planter class, slavery would go unchallenged for many generations. So you're essentially relying on a demographic shift that would be against slavery as a form of labor.
Slavery is not likely to die of natural causes at least until well into the 20th century, maybe even the information age. It's an extremely profitable form of labor control, and one that's very much compatible with semi-skilled industrial labor; the future of slavery had never looked better than in 1860.