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  1. What really is the future of the CSA?

    80% of free adults, somewhere around 10% of slaves (some needed to be taught for their jobs) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26062071
  2. What really is the future of the CSA?

    It’s a nice idea, and resistance was and would continue to be widespread, but usually it took much less drastic forms. The most common method was simply feigning illness. Despite this the slave economy continued to be immensely profitable. Sort of? It would be an important player, probably more...
  3. What really is the future of the CSA?

    Unfortunately, slaves make just as good industrial workers as free laborers. Starobin’s work showed this as far back as l the 1970s. It tended to fluctuate with the price of cotton. Cotton prices shot up in the early and late 1850s. People here tend to assume that due to the Civil War Europe...
  4. What really is the future of the CSA?

    Can you provide some evidence to the contrary? You’re saying that as a whole it wouldn’t be supported. What do you base this claim on. I don’t know. Pre war they were starting to invest heavily into the railroad and iron industries particularly in the Alabama-Georgia-East Tennesse area. The...
  5. What really is the future of the CSA?

    Does it need to be? There was already substantial pre-war interest in constructing more railroads by private ventures and state governments. Furthermore, a lot of transportation of goods was and still is done via rivers in the South due to the abundance of navigable rivers. There was nothing...
  6. What really is the future of the CSA?

    And yet, the Confederate government did it anyway. See Selma ironworks. Or the bill passed by the Confederate Congress in 1862 fund the completion of the Greensboro-Danville railroad.
  7. What really is the future of the CSA?

    Someone call Zak Bagans, I think I saw Ulrich Philips' ghost in this thread. Why is this board still stuck in the historiography of the 1920s when it comes to the Antebellum economy. Food shortages during the war were largely due to distribution issues (lack of transportation during wartime)...
  8. The R-QBAM main thread

    @Tanystropheus42 Been watching this thread for a while and just want to say this is superb work and is so much easier to work with than the Q-Bam . Having tinkered with the R-Qbam a good bit now my only gripe is that the inclusion of so many modern reservoirs makes creating accurate historical...
  9. Proposed WW1 war aims/wargoals mapped out by me

    Very interesting stuff. I never thought about looking through Tirpitz's papers. I've done a fair bit of work on the subject of war aims (especially Ostpolitik) if you'd like any help/materials.
  10. Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    This sudden surge in posts on WWI Ostpolitik/war aims is making me feel much more useful. Great maps by the way. Archives have to be pretty selective about what they digitize, based on demand and budget. The subject of German war aims during WWI is pretty niche so digitizing them is not really...
  11. How viable would the United Baltic Duchy have been after a German victory in WW1?

    Sure Daugavplis was founded on and located on the northern bank of the Dvina. So with the rest of Latgale it was part of Russia's Vitebsk governorate. What is now the part of the city south of the Dvina was a town called Griva (German: Griwa). Here's a German Army map from the war. This is...
  12. How viable would the United Baltic Duchy have been after a German victory in WW1?

    Oh boy, I can finally put my graduate research to use so I'll just rant. So over the past few years I've been through a lot of material on German Ostpolitik during WWI. Interestingly, I have yet to find a single scholarly work or primary soruce which mention the words "United Baltic Duchy"...
  13. Germany sends Blucher to Kamerun at war start

    Yes. Since it has marines aboard. Apparently the pre-dreadnought HMS Albion was stationed at Walvis Bay from October to November 1914. Not sure what that says about the port facilities there though.
  14. Germany sends Blucher to Kamerun at war start

    If Kamerun doesn’t work, would Blucher be able to dock at Walvis Bay? I haven’t been able to find what the garrison there was in summer 1914, but if Blucher has a contingent of marines, the Germans could hold it for a bit. The only port in German Southwest Africa is Luderitz, and in 1914 it’s...
  15. Capital of the Confederacy

    Jefferson county, AL, where Birmingham is today, is an excellent location(aptly named too). But before Birmingham was founded in 1871 it was decidedly rural, and disconnected from the rail network. IOTL the interest in developing the region began during the Antebellum though.
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