"Jack" wrote in message
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On 1/27/04 12:11 PM, in article , "Keith
Willshaw" wrote:

...would probably [have] prevented the American civil
war since slavery would have been abolished in the south
in the 1830's as it was elsewhere in the Empire.

I think you give too little weight to the same factors which made it
necessary a generation later.

Abolition may have precipitated a revolution and break from England as
taxation and other grievances did two generations earlier.


Perhaps but I doubt it, the main market for their products
was Britain and the Conferederates dream was to get
Britain (and France) to recognise them as an independent
nation and use the RN to break the union blockade.

None of that is even remotely possible and if anything
the anti-slavery movement in the North would probably
be even stronger and a Confederacy that didnt include
Texas would be somewhat weaker.

Keith