Égalité: A Utopian TL

Yeah republicanism both in NA and especially Europe is going to be very different than it was OTL. The only place that is going to have relatively similar politics to its OTL equivalent is South America and even then only to a certain extent.
The always NISA trope? reminder, the Latinamericans revolution were a big influence in the latin americans one, specially colombian and mexico one, is just you wanted usa to be like otl, laying waste on mexico.
 

Mango Soup

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The always NISA trope? reminder, the Latinamericans revolution were a big influence in the latin americans one, specially colombian and mexico one, is just you wanted usa to be like otl, laying waste on mexico.

Believe me I have plans, the first one around this guy. After talking with another member Im probably going to do an arc around New Granada too.
 
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Interesting. Apparently there is no need for a war of 1812 at this point? I suppose Andrew Jackson could easily rise up in some other way, considering the man's propensity for dueling he definitely had a knack for getting into things. He probably still is involved in capturing Florida.

Im going to do a background post on the last 40 years of American history as soon as I get another chapter on Brown up and then an Update on Europe. Jackson will definitely still play a role

This is great. I expect they won't get that successful electorally though, and if they commit too much to that, they may become neutered by the necessities of electoral politics and just become a slightly leftier wing of northern politics.

By the way, the book title should be "Le manifeste du quatrième-état". French is a bitch.

The politics of the rest of the 1850s are going to be incredibly turbulent

And fixed, thanks
 
The always NISA trope? reminder, the Latinamericans revolution were a big influence in the latin americans one, specially colombian and mexico one, is just you wanted usa to be like otl, laying waste on mexico.
I blame the fact that the English Wikipedia articles for Latin America are incredibly sparse and often full of false or incomplete information. If you run Spanish Wikipedia through Google Translate a whole treasure trove of information opens up.
 
I.II: Sumner in the Senate, Brown in the Battlefield

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I.II: Sumner in the Senate, Brown in the Battlefield

Sumner would take his seat in the United States senate in 1851 as a Free Soil Democrat. He quickly used his increasing stature and political rank as a launching point for the careers of a variety of other abolitionist and equalitarian politicians like himself. Under his endorsement in the support of the Free Soilers and the Sinai Club, abolitionist politicians would run for seats at the state and national level across the country, mostly within New England. Inside the senate, he made no attempt to hide his his radical positions or staunch abolitionism, making him quite the controversial figure within his tenure. To no avail, he led ardent attacks against the the fugitive slave act of 1850, something he saw as morally abhorrent and an abuse of power. His blunt and firebrand nature made him hated in the south and beloved in the north. In 1854, the Free Soilers and the remnants of the lifeless Whig party merged to become a new political force: The Republican Party. Themselves anti slavery, Sumner and most of the political figures associated with the Sinai Club opted to join the Republicans.

Back in Massachusetts, the Sinai Club had become as important a political body as the state congress itself. A majority of the congress had passed through its walls at one point or another, and its influence on regional politics had driven Massachusetts and surrounding state further and further to radical abolitionism at a rapid pace. In 1854, after then governor Emory Washburn's inaction in the trial of Anthony Burns led to his re-enslavement, the Sinai Club orchestrated an independent campaign around free soiler Charles Allen. They would succeed with a narrow victory against the incumbent and an insurgent Know Nothing, and with his ascension the Sinai Club would have a sort of shadow control over the state.

John Brown and the Gileadites also grew in stature, finding new recruits and monetary backing throughout the commonwealth and the north east. He had disdain for much of the mercantile elite, but was willing to forgo this for funding. While favorable of the Republicans and by extension the Sinai Club's electoral gains, the man had no interest at the time in holding office himself.

In 1855, Brown heard of brewing violence in Kansas. The state was in turmoil, split between pro-slavery and free state settlers over how it would enter the union. Supporters of both sides had flooded the territory in an attempt to influence the election of the first territorial legislature. That very election would lead to the breakdown of relations and an outbreak of violence after accusations of fraud were thrown around by free settlers. The free-staters opted to ignore and disobey any laws passed by the illegitimate government.

As the year came to a close, violence between the two fronts turned to open war. Arsons, raids on slaveowners, and full on firefights blew the conflict in Kansas wide open. News of the bloodshed began to flood out to the rest of the country, relations becoming white hot between the north and the south. Decorum had all but desisted in congress at this point. Charles Sumner in particular became an avid advocate for the free state movement in Kansas, calling for government intervention in the territory. It was at this point Sumner formalized a plan: a grab at the presidency.

Support in Kansas turned from slave state to free state after a series of victories by Brown and the Gileadites. The second election was much more favorable to the free-staters, and John W. Geary seemed equally as interested in preventing raids from Missouri as he did restoring peace. Now a much larger force made up of the original Gileadites, Free State settlers, and even escaped slaves, Brown began to formulate a plan: by starting a slave rebellion in Missouri, not only could he stop the flow of pro-slave fighters to Kansas but also put into motion a true movement for nationwide abolition. However, he'd hold off as news of Sumner's run for president reached him.

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Charles Sumner (Left) and Cassius Clay (Right), the first Republican ticket

As 1856 rolled around, so too did the first Republican National Convention. With the field narrowed to Sumner, John McLean, and Joshua Reed Giddings, Sumner would barely inch out the nomination from McLean, carried largely by his support in New England and New York. Cassius Clay, a former planter who had freed his slaves, would become VP, balancing out the ticket by adding a southerner.

The Republican ticket faced steep opposition. The Democrats had broken for James Buchanan, the ambassador to Great Britain who hoped to appeal both to the North and the South. The Native American Party nominated George Law, choosing Kenneth Rayner for vice president.

In 1856 Fredrick Douglass once again gave a speech at St. Johns Congressional Church. He discussed, amongst other things, the current state of the abolition movement, the candidacy of George Sumner (of whom he endorsed), and womens rights and their role within the movement. At the end , he met a man, a newcomer to the church, who said he had escaped from a plantation in Virginia. After further conversation, Frederick learned this man was from the Belmont Plantation in Southampton Virginia, and had personally witnessed the revolt of Nat Turner twenty five years earlier. He quickly began gathering stories from this man, and began to write another book.
 
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