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Let us assume that the Confederacy would have won their independence. The Confederacy viewed chattel slavery was a positive good and slavery as the key to a more civilized world. Was it too late to change the minds of Europeans on this?
I guess what I am asking is, could an independent Confederate nation do anything to convince Europeans that their view on chattel slavery was wrong or was is simply to late to change Europe's minds? If the Confederacy was wildly successful in expanding slavery would it have been possible to convince Europeans that chattel slavery was the proper condition for all the world's non white peoples? By 1860 it seems that in the minds of most European nations had turned against chattel slavery and I am trying to imagine what an independent Confederacy could have possible done to change the European's minds back to the view that chattel slavery was right. I am of the opinion that by 1950s the Confederacy would have been a very isolated defender of chattel slavery and that most European people would have still viewed chattel slavery as morally wrong long before the 1950s. Perhaps I miss understand the ability of the Confederacy to prove that chattel slavery was proper and convince the world of this view. Perhaps I over estimate the opposition of Europeans to world wide chattel slavery. Any thoughts?
I guess what I am asking is, could an independent Confederate nation do anything to convince Europeans that their view on chattel slavery was wrong or was is simply to late to change Europe's minds? If the Confederacy was wildly successful in expanding slavery would it have been possible to convince Europeans that chattel slavery was the proper condition for all the world's non white peoples? By 1860 it seems that in the minds of most European nations had turned against chattel slavery and I am trying to imagine what an independent Confederacy could have possible done to change the European's minds back to the view that chattel slavery was right. I am of the opinion that by 1950s the Confederacy would have been a very isolated defender of chattel slavery and that most European people would have still viewed chattel slavery as morally wrong long before the 1950s. Perhaps I miss understand the ability of the Confederacy to prove that chattel slavery was proper and convince the world of this view. Perhaps I over estimate the opposition of Europeans to world wide chattel slavery. Any thoughts?