England, Spain and France, you mean? Our nation had not been founded at that point. The Founders knew it was going to lead to war, George Mason in particular. They tried to negotiate their way out, however the largely agrarian southern colonies-become-states were entirely too dependent upon it. So, the peculiar institution remained and the war that Mason predicted at the Founding that would tear the nation apart occurred.
I just wish we'd have picked our own damned cotton.