What does America look like if the Trans-Atlantic slave trade doesn’t occur?

Was having a conversation the other day with someone and they suggested that if African slavery hadn’t come to the states, we may have remained a British commonwealth due to an importation of poor Irish to do the work.

And since there wouldn’t be a racial divide, there would have been a class divide, and so perhaps the sentiment of “all men are created equal” doesn’t develop, and if the colonies do rebel, the British may have found more sympathy from the underclass and had them as allies.

I thought it was an interesting take.



I’m a big fan of musing on alternative history. So what does the OT think would happen in the absence of an American Slave Trade?

No civil war?

A Balkanization of America, with various ethnostates forming around enclaves of European people’s?

More Slavs and Germans and Irish altering the trajectory of the nation and changing world history?

Whose side would we have fought on in WW1?

One thing is for certain...had that happened, we’d have more of a preponderance of attractive women in some places.

On an unrelated note, here’s some kids in power wheels running down their siblings.