Washington won. Lee lost. What would America look like today if the South had prevailed? Would blacks still be slaves?
No because there would have actually been more slaves than southern plantation owners and the slaves would have risen up. Those whites who turned the ground with the plow were considered lowly white trash. The lessor plantation owners were already bought out or forced out by the larger ones and many were moving either north or west-to Kansas etc. So eventually, they would have been forced to abandon slavery or face elimination. King Cotton Would have collapsed because the Euro nations had established cotton plantations in other countries...like India.
The whole system in the south would have collapsed.
The war was about states rights and slavery was the spark.
We dam near got into it with France at the end of that war in Mexico. Grant sent Sheridan to the border, which France decided it wasnt to bright to pick a fight with the US at that time and negotiated to prevent any war.
We would have slaughtered France and Mexico might well have become a dependent of the US.
“Would blacks still be slaves?”
What do you think?