slavery

What if gold was discovered say in 1849? (15 years later than OTL.) As we know because gold was discovered early it allowed for southern migration and eventually becoming a slave state after becoming independent (like our sister state Texas.) Would the Mexican American War have gone differently...

I was thinking of a workaround for the Dredd Scott decision. In any state, if you have something illegal, it is confiscated without compensation. If you are a smuggler with smuggled goods, and the state catches you with them, you lose them; no compensation, even if the goods are legal...

Pretty much what it says in the title. I know that plantations needed a large number of cheap labor, but are plantations the only option in the region? Could smaller farms not work, for example? Can we avoid having African slaves in the region? This scenario assumes that the region is...

King George III (that Hanoverian tyrant) wanted to cut defense spending associated with the American colonies (Scotsmen picking fights) so he issued the Royal Proclamation in 1763 which created (among other things) a line along the Eastern Continental Divide beyond which Whites could not settle...

With no PoDs prior to the 1828 referendum calling for a convention, how can the malapportionment of the General Assembly giving undue power to the richer planter class in the Tidewater (or conversely, under-representing the western part of the state) be as diminished as possible? CONSOLIDATE...

What if when the American Colonization Society sends freed slaves to Africa and the Kingdom of Koya unites with the tribes in the area and wipes out the colony and this leads to the ACS changing from being back to Africa to sending the Freed Slaves in 1825 somewhere out West. Where in the West...

What kind of effect did the Revolutionary Period (1806-21) have on race relations in the Western Hemisphere (outside of Canada and the US)? AIUI, they played a crucial role in the abolition of slavery across Latin America; is this right? If so, how would this change without the Napoleonic Wars...

This question comes as part of my ongoing research for my Fringe alternate universe timeline. If Louisiana was never admitted as a state (or at least its statehood delayed), how would it affect the balance of power between slave and free states in the Senate? I'm mainly concerned about the...

With no PoDs prior to 1808, how can the spread of slavery in the country be prevented as much as possible, and the cumulative anti-slavery movement be as influential as possible (potentially including, but not limited to, an earlier abolition)? To start with, would it help if the War of 1812 was...

What would be the primary consequences of a Mexican victory in the Texas Rebellion? Would Mexico have been able to stabilize itself efficiently enough to avoid simply losing it later, likely to the United States? And assuming they were able to overcome most of their other domestic issues, and...

Howdy all. Old veteran of the original alt.history.what-if here. Back to indulge the Vice in a particular way and for a particular purpose. This is an AH I've been kicking around for some time. It's for an alternate Florida which stayed in the British Empire and, in the late 18th century...

So I'm trying to get a handle on how the Ottoman Empire fared in the 17th and 18th Centuries (the period from the death of Murad III to the rise of Selim III); specifically, how they fared economically, culturally, and politically, and to a lesser extent, in terms of military effectiveness (as...

Odinani was the Monotheistic-esque religion of the safe haven, anti-slavery, theocratic Kingdom of Nri. The problem is that strict pacifism is one of it's core tenents, which is one of the major causes for the kingdom's end in the early 20th century after having endured for almost a millenia...

Starting in the 1840's with the introduction of steam powered factories, textiles became the major export for the southern US states. But what if the textile industry didn't exist or was much delayed? Is that even possible and how long could slavery have lasted if the South had remained almost...

Free Provinces The united states established free states and slavery states, in the new world beyond the united states the only country with slaves was the empire of Brazil In the Empire of Brazil, slavery was legal in all provinces. How can Brazil have free provicias and slavery provinces...

Union slavery and confederate abolitionists The northern states (union) with slaves from independence and with the expiration to the south, the south becomes abolitionist. The civil war begins south abolitionist and northern slavery

I know this has been discussed, the idea of a Spartan Empire. I'd like to ask though, as in all the forums I read the Helots (Slaves) had to go or at least be given more rights for the system to work. So, how could a Helot system work with a Spartan Empire? What would have to go and what would...

In 1784, a part of the territorial governance act was narrowly defeated. If passed, this would disallow slavery in any new states made out of the territories? How would this change US history if it did pass?

Slow Unionist advance into Virginian Peninsula began on April 1862 when George B. McClellan in the strenght of 121,500 thousands of men besieged John G. Magruder's 30,000 soldiers in the Yorktown area. After long siege McClellan planned massive bombardment on 5 May but Confederate force slipped...

Assume that the slavery issue is solved early in US history and the USA decides to "expand democracy to as many as possible." How large could the USA have become?