Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: wardaddy
Interesting perspective....even if that had occured I think there would have been an eventual reunification at some point....yes probably after slavery died it's own death as it did elsewhere in the Americas.

I doubt there would have been reunification. The Confederacy was born out of the demand for State's Rights - slavery was just the issue that ignited the secession. (In retrospect, considering the Socialist tyranny that has since descended upon us, it was probably the right war for the wrong reason.) Knowing the South, slavery would probably have eventually mutated into some sort of system of indentured servitude of both blacks and "lower-class" whites, as a political and economic expedient, since slavery was on the one hand generally a discredited institution in the "civilized" world, but on the other a nevertheless essential element of the South's agricultural economy at the time. But I doubt the people of the Confederate States would have ever tolerated a resumption of subjugation to Federal power, having once won their freedom from it.

The border states and expansion would have to have been given up I'm assuming in your conjecture?

Hard to say... (my crystal ball is in the repair shop). But, with two independent Nations in place of the one, there would have been an ongoing process of various territories and even existing States' swearing (and foreswearing) their allegiances to either one, on an ongoing basis, until the geopolitical boundaries stabilized in some form after the continent was populated.

405 posted on 05/26/2002 1:09:14 AM PDT by fire_eye
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 402 | View Replies ]


To: fire_eye
I was indulging in your conjecture and thinking mainly of geographic proximity and perhaps more importantly cultural and ethnic similarity. I wish the war had never been fought. Slavery could have died on it's on at some point. Perhaps a further strengthening of state's rights could have been fostered. Did we really have to go to war to finalize Federal incorporation? Too bad because inflexible folks ruled the day. Sort of like this thread. LOL
419 posted on 05/26/2002 10:11:29 AM PDT by wardaddy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 405 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson