The war had already begun and the pamphlets distributed by Charles Schenk were a form of expressing <em>his opinion</em>, but he was trying to persuade <em>draft-age men to refuse military service</em>, and this was interpreted as an intention to result in a crime, and not merely a freedom of speech, accourding to the Espionage Act, passed shortly after U.S. entry into World War I.
Before he became the first president of the United States, George Washington was a surveyor. Surveyors measure land, air space and water, explain what it looks like or how much is there, and then put those facts into legal documents. Washington was the official surveyor for his county in 1749, which allowed him to purchase his first piece of land in western Virginia.
This is one of those questions that is near impossible to answer.
The best I can give you, based upon my reading, is that it is likely that slavery would have continued for quite a while longer. Over time, though, it would have held a diminished role in society as the South industrialized. The advent of the assembly line would have further pushed the decline.
Holding slaves was a morally bankrupt AND expensive endeavor. For a long time, the cost benefit analysis for slave owners was that they could get years of work out of a person without wages. Eventually, with technology, this would have made the institution less of a good "investment," combined with moral pressure as most of the Western world divested itself from slavery.
So, you'd likely see a more pronounced version of our de facto slavery with migrant farm workers in the United States.
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to pray in the direction of Mecca
