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  1. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    You're right, I have threadmarked that. Thank you for writing these! Hm that's true, but in popular memory the planters will remain the paramount "villains," most likely.

  2. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Please like the update and share any thoughts you might have! :) It'll take much longer to see the first Black President... probably after the turn of the century. What's true is that there will be a class of Black politicians and party bosses. We could see Black families with an august lineage...

  3. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Hope you enjoy the chapter! The main difficulty I will face writing this thing is that there's just so much stuff going on at the same time, and I can't analyze it as once. We'll get to all other subjects in due time, for now I wanted to focus on how the last remnants of slavery were destroyed...

  4. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid
    Threadmarks: Chapter 2: We Are Bound for Freedom's Light

    Chapter 2: We Are Bound for Freedom's Light Emancipation and Land Reform in the last months of the war and at the start of the Military Occupation Slavery in the United States did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation of July 4, 1862, nor did it end with the final victory over the...

  5. For the Republic: A History of the Second American Civil War

    Oh, that bastard! Sullying the name of the Union's heroes! Great update. I love TLs that dedicate as much time and detail to the homefront and economic and social issues as political and military ones. No history is complete without knowing what's actually happening on the ground to all the...

  6. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I hadn't considered it, but you're right that there's the unfortunate implication that the war was only for the planter class and that the poor people had not stake in it but were just forced to fight against their will - which is the myth we've been...

  7. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Thank you for your kind words! I'm really glad you liked the first TL, I hope you will like this one too. Given the circumstances of his birth, he very well could have died in the famine. But, assuming he lives, since many of his relatives were actual Klansmen, he very well could see the Klan...

  8. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    If limited land redistribution would have been too far for Lincoln, he would have certainly overruled Sherman's orders. He did not. So I fully believe he would have signed the original bill too. As for Bureau land, while it's true that as things stood in 1865 OTL there was little hope for a...

  9. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    Just to give you an example, the original Freedman's Bureau bill contemplated making it permanent, declared that the freedmen could hold onto the lands redistributed by General Sherman's orders by three years, and authorized the Bureau to provide land to the dispossessed. Johnson's veto killed...

  10. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    The unraveling of Reconstruction under Johnson started pretty early, and while the official guidelines for the organization, election, and workings of the Constitutional Convention might not differ that much, Lincoln would have done several things quite differently. Just take Louisiana, for...

  11. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Hm his early life would be entirely different given that his father was a Confederate colonel and legislator - at the very least, someone like him wouldn't be allowed to take a seat in the Legislature. He was also a Kentuckian, and Kentucky's status is still in flux what with all its war-time...

  12. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Something like that, yes. He'd probably deserve execution, but the idea of doing it would raise all kinds of trouble. Especially the fact that Stephens remained popular in Georgia also contributed to him being exiled instead of executed. As for Lee, yes, he's likely to be a very controversial...

  13. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I did notice, but I didn't want to mention it because I've kind of made a mess of the names of TTL's Civil War. While I would like it to be known as the Slaveholders' Rebellion or something like that, within the text I've consistently called it the Civil War. And, given that that was the most...

  14. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Yes, I think it's infinitely better to say "the Confederate cause was an evil one that granpapa was forced to join" instead of outright defending it and taking pride in it. Prominent secessionists who had an important role in pushing for and then achieving secession, being part of secessionist...

  15. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Thanks! And yes, I plan to establish the Confederates as being deeply evil, so much that in popular culture they'll be as infamous and hated as the Nazis. Not another version of the Lost Cause, but what I'd call the "Clean Confederate" myth, which would be eventually ditched and recognized as a...

  16. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Wow, really great job too! These are amazing :D Hm, no, not really. The Nuremberg Trials involved the people who had been basically the enemies of the entire world, after a World War that completely changed the planet and defined history. This is a US affair. While they'll be huge for American...

  17. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Looks absolutely great! Thanks a lot for this amazing work!

  18. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Thanks! And thank you a lot for doing them! I'm glad you liked my TLs enough to inspire you to work on something you enjoy! Having a National narrative of the war taught in American schools was also a priority for me. It would also push the US closer to other states in the 19th century, which...

  19. Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution - The Sequel to Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid

    Most likely. Eh, I don't think so? Like, I don't think Britain would give up territory willingly. I thought of having the Federal government picking up the slack when it comes to education and railroads, at least initially. There were real proposals for Federally funded education, and...

  20. Wrapped in Flames: The Great American War and Beyond

    I would expect the Radicals and Republicans to try and bury the hatchet or at least conclude fusion tickets to oppose McClellan. Unless the bad blood over their role in Lincoln's defeat is too much? And, it'd be hard for Breckinridge to get a worse ending that the one I have him. What's truly...
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