"But escalating pressure on the South might've led to a war" A war? A War Between the States? Oh noes
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Kicking the can four score and seven years down the road just made the inevitable war several times bigger, bloodier and costlier
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What it actually came down to was that the North cared a lot more abt not risking their independence from Britain than they did slavery
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Good for them, but that set of priorities was morally wrong, so fuck that
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Lincoln successfully used the sanctity of American independence as a bludgeon against the South, sure
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But they'd used that same sanctity as a shield for their "peculiar institution" for generations prior
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A War Between the States over war debt and over abolition in the 1780s. Britain comes back to "pacify" the wayward colonies
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The North ends up "selling out" to the Crown in return for guaranteed Parliamentary representation and a hard anti-slavery line
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The abortive American Revolution accelerates the timeline of both British colonial reforms and American abolition of slavery
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How would that not be a better world for everyone
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Of course that's not the only way it could've turned out. But it makes as much sense as saying real life is the best possible timeline
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Also, if we were part of the Commonwealth, we'd know the metric system, and have better visa reciprocity, which would be cool
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