[Sherman Logan]

Slavery was on verge of expansion just before the Civil War. Had the South won, slavery would had been expanded to new territories in the West, and possibly to the islands such as Cuba.

Cuba already had slavery, and indeed didn't give it up till 1886.

Certain southerners had delusions that after independence they would be able to expand militarily into the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central/South America, creating a great slave empire.

But it was never more than delusion. Such expansion, given the transport tech of the time, could only be by sea. And the Royal Navy, not to mention the US Navy, would never have allowed it.

[Psalm 144]

“Cuba already had slavery, and indeed didn’t give it up till 1886.”

Nor did the United States until after the war. The war was an apostate puritans’ honor killing. The Salem witch trials writ large, but this time in the service of secular power.