🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if Britain abolishes slavery had gone differently?
1833 · britain
The largest maritime empire outlaws slavery and starts using its navy to suppress the trade.
If it had gone differently: The biggest naval power keeps slavery legal; abolition loses its first state sponsor and stalls for decades.
What it set up
- 1861The American Civil War, The Union splits for good; there is no single continental United States to become the next century's dominant power.
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