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With the invention of the tractor slaves would no longer have been economical for farming. There would be no push in the south to keep the same number of slaves. Would there have been a civil war, if there was it would have been strictly over tariffs? In that case England (without slavery) would have fully supported the south.
The issue with questions like this is that they ignore the issue of what else changed to allow this specific change to take place as opposed to what happened in the real timeline. Are there internal combustion engines now? Or much improved steam engines? What changed so that these came around quicker? Does one particular entity have a monopoly on them? Do we also know how to refine oil? Or did a thousand nuclear-powered tractors just drop in front of slave owners’ mansions with detailed manuals?
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