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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Afrikaner dominated apartheid state in South Africa survive at least until this date, October 13th, 2011, with a POD no later than 1900. Please consider world-wide effects.

From a purely strategic point of view, I'm partial to an ATL were the capitol ends up in Atlanta, Georgia. How likely that is, while having the Confederacy maintian all its states I don't know (but I feel like begining of hostitlities will bring the tidewater south into the Confed, regardles), a...

Good point, and my point remains only that the racial / demographic effects of slavery a point which should be considered. Slaves, illegally brought from Africa, were arriving in Cuba as late a 1867. If Spain could defy the 'Mightiest Navy on Earth' and still import slaves to its colonies, I...

Well, without much elaboration I'm afraid, It has been taught to me that the British had a religious / spiritual revival in the Aftermath of the American Revolution which contributed to their abolitionism movement and their missionary movement. A zeal for humanism / true Christianity if you...

I have to give you JFP, we should be having this conversation in your thread.

Again, very few of these discussion ever seem to mention the impact of the illegal slave trade in a Victorious South. About 15% of the South's slave population arrived in the United States after 1808, when the slave trade was theoritically illegal. All notions of universal (white) honor aside, I...

Jefferson Davi's political career wouldn't end up being so bright, in all likely hood at least.

Ever since reading a historian / philospher by the name of Charles Tilly, who ratiolanalized all of history in terms of warfare, I enjoy doing the same even if I don't completely buy his argument. I will, however, contribute this fact to the lack of profibility of slaves: Until 1945, and the...

The CSA would look a lot like a cross between Brazil and aparthied South Africa, circa 2011.

The American Revolution fails, for whatever reasons, or variable reasons depending on the poster. How does this effect the evolution of race and slavery issues in British North America? Or the British Americas in general, considering their Carribean posessions.

Bump. Let's say a storm hits the region, cutting telegraph lines for a few days, and some hot head, flip a coin for which side, ends up shooting another. Maybe even over a poker game. (seemed kind of friendly till then.)

In June 1859, the United States and Great Britain almost went to war over a slaughtered pig: Cite, "A world on Fire" by Amanda Foreman. "Ten mothes earlier, in June 1859, a domestic pig on San Juan Island in the Staits of Juan de Cuca had wandered from its enclosure into the patoto patche of...

In a failed American Revolution scenario, for it to be serious, you have to answer 1) What becomes of the revolutionaries? Are the English generous in surrender, or harsh? 2) The slavery question: Does England continue on its course towards abolution, or does the the presence of defeated...

Question of this Post: How is History Changed, if Queen Victoria is instead King Victor? (!9th Century)

Hasa rights, in terms of African slavery. hahaha

I think this PoD would require, prehaps, a stronger and more successful West-African kingdoms. Kingdoms which were somehow able to resist pressure from Arab incursions from the north, and simultaneous extend their influence further south and inland than they did historically. I don't think you...

No man who scores so often, and so exotically, could ever be a Republican. Oh wait, except in California. Never mind...

Seriously. Everyone knows Khan was a huge asshole. If shatner told people his political enemies were basically Khan, they'd be lucky to make it out of the state alive! :D Moreover, have a problem? He'll just say "I'll have Mr. Spock look into it." and you'll know things will be alright.