2/ the south was quite conflicted on slavery by the 1830s - it was just the ceaseless moralizing and poking from intolerable New England progressives that got their backs up against the wall I stand by my claim that slavery would have been phased outhttps://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1481750463129260033 …
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The British ended their Caribbean slavery before 1865 because without heavy subsidies, it was not profitable
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Few or no other countries would have pressured the South to end slavery so long as they were getting cheap cotton. The North would not have cared. Internal pressure within the South seems unlikely. Territorial expansion would have been settled with compromises much as were made.
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imagine the War of 1812 but the South sides with the British
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no union means DC likely doesn't exist as a yankee national capitol, would probably be Philadelphia or NYC
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The 3/5th compromise is bad because it lead to the creation of the USG is the kind of principled take I love reading from you.
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never thought of you as a canadian but ok with old ben on this one most dayspic.twitter.com/I5s3fh1RCj
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as to the Yankee Question I have my own meme on the subjectpic.twitter.com/EN4Y63HxY5
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