[null and void]

Had we not had a successful revolt against The Crown starting in 1776, slavery would have ended here in 1833, by act of Parliament, when it did for the rest of the British empire.

(Unless The South revolted against the full might of the entire Empire at that point!)

[gundog]

No emancipation without representation!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Had we not had a successful revolt against The Crown starting in 1776, slavery would have ended here in 1833, by act of Parliament, when it did for the rest of the British empire.

. . . assuming that the South had no influence on Parliament. I would argue it’s more likely that the American Revolution, by freeing the Empire of most of its slave holders, made that act possible or at least easier.

It’s an interesting counterfactual . . .