re: University of Alabama system to review all building names, remove Confederate Army plaques

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It's possible, but on what timeline? The industrial revolution started soon after the Civil War. It's more likely they would have just shifted that slave labor to the factories and construction.

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We're playing what-if, but IMHO in 20 years or less. No later than the turn of the century for sure.

Slavery ended in Britain in the 1830s. France ended it in the 1820s. India and Egypt had become other avenues for cotton - heck, that's one of the reasons the CSA's attempt to gain recognition in Europe took off. They didn't like slavery and they could get cotton from other sources. That disdain for slave-produced products was just going to get greater as time passed.

South splits, slavery stays. Each state is independent. They've got few if any places to sell their product and a lot of expense. One by one each state abolishes it. Pretty quickly you look up and it is gone.