Ok if the former slaves can all get the chance to own land and build wealth then a lot of issues facing black Americans get butterflied away since a lot of issues facing the community can be traced to the lack of generational wealth in the black community due to white supremacists ensuring they...
Best way to kill an Insurgency is to break up the plantations and parcel them out to freed slaves and poor southern whites. Poor southern whites won’t care about fighting if they got all this new land to cultivate
Great side story though of course I’m sure the enslaved population would have a different opinion on the president and the war. Though since they are not seen as human their opinions don’t count
Honestly, in the long run a more thorough Reconstruction will help the country. Cuz who knows how much economic growth was stunted by black Americans not being allowed to gain wealth and contribute that wealth to the economy.
Well looks like Sherman will be needed to break the South once and for all after this assassination attempt. Will make his OTL March look like kids picking daisies
Something I'm morbidly curious about is how the future Sherman meme reddit page would be like. Like roasting Confederates is the national pastime there. Like I wonder what memes will this TTL war spawn.
As someone whose family came here from Mexico, this TL has my interest. Boy do my parents have creative names for the last 3 PRI presidents, Spanish does lend itself well to curse words. Anyway, great story.