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The South would not have given up slavery so easily
First of all, their Constitution had a provision saying no laws could be passed infringing on slavery
Article I Section 9(4)
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed
Their Constitution would have had to be ammended and at that would have left Slavery as a States Rights issue. There would have been immense global pressure from Europe to free the slaves and I susspect that the process could have started as early as 1880 but it may have been 1900-1910 before Mississippi and Alabama agreed
It's awfully strange that a party 90% white would insist they would end slavery. You would never see anyone at a Democratic rally wearing a tee shirt that said "Put WHITE back in the WHITE House".