Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-15167627-20131106073418

Okay, so here's the premise for a timeline I hope to write up one day;

Sometime during the Seven-Years War (French and Indian War), the mechanical cotton gin is invented by an unknown plantation owner in one of the thirteen colonies. Similarly to the cotton gin in OTL, it helps boost the cotton industry, yet also the "need" for slave labour.

1. What happens to the abolition movement?

2. What are the effects on the British Empire and America?

3. How does this effect the triangular trade (particularly the slave trade from Africa)?

4. What would happen to the American Revolution (is it destined to occur in a similar way to OTL)?

5. What will the overall effects on the industrial revolution? 