Yeah, it's the best option.
Make two folders, one for the first part's tropes and another for the second.
When it becomes too unwieldy, we can then split it in two pages.
Given how the Daughters of the Confederacy are unlikely to be formed, now I have a question: would this butterfly away Mount Rushmore? Because I might be wrong, but I think that the DotC hired someone to create something similar but with Jefferson Davis, Lee and many Confederate soldiers (a...
I join the others in congratulating you for the (high) quality of this chapter. It is very much welcome, and a good sight into what the black population was going through during and after the war.
There's only one thing I'd like to suggest, because there's a part that is ambiguous enough as to...
"The guys you liked were horrible people, but the ones that replaced them were worse! You're welcome."
-- The North to the South
(You may make all the Holy Grail jokes you want)
I've seen weirder things.
Such as an actual book where John Brown's rebellion succeeds - and manages to stage a slave rebellion that takes over the South, which successfully secedes after fighting against the Union... which is somehow still led by Abraham Lincoln. And then they create a...
There is an Elseworlds story where Clark Kent is a Union soldier (Superman: A Nation Divided).
Also, remember one thing: no Lost Cause of the South to make these assholes look good!
Given how Lee became quite notorious for a certain instance of him not freeing his slaves against his honor, I find that risible.
Context: Lee's father-in-law willed him several slaves on the condition they would be freed within five years. Lee went to the judge and demanded that clause of the...
My pleasure! I discovered this story through TV Tropes, so it was a given that I could help in there. I'll update the thing with Stuart.
The problem with YMMV tropes is that, as indicated, it's about things Your Mileage May Vary on. Some tropes that could apply:
- Anticlimax Boss: The last...
Amazing ending to these five years of work, and looking forward to the Reconstruction Era in these new United States.
Aside: I found the fate of Jeb Stuart quite ironic - executed in the same place he executed John Brown? Someone really wanted to drive it home.
One wonders. What would media like Gone With The Wind or C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America look like in this universe?
Gone With The Wind was born out of a romantic viewpoint of the South, something that things like the Famine or the Jacquery would certainly do a lot to ruin. I figure...
This is the moment that encapsulates the entire story. A free black man that has proven he's as good or better than the common white man of the South finally meeting one of his loved ones that was lost to the barbary of the slaveholders.