African American run Confederate Union

Okay, so I've been thinking about this and now I'm kinda stumped on a few bits.

I've got a rough idea of what exactly happens to form a confederate states that's primarily run by african americans, but apart from the basics timeline: Confederates win pyrrhic victory then black slaves revolt while white masters are weak, I'm unsure about other things.

For instance, would the Union support it? (I doubt so but the US has a habit of supporting regime changes all the way from Hawaii and Mexican owned California)

Would there be white flight, and to what extent? Would it be like Zimbabwe? Would states secede from the confederacy to the union?
 
I'm pretty sure a grand slave revolt (and a successful one at that) in the Confederacy would lead the white population to demand Union intervention, something which the Union would be happy to oblige. Not that such a slave revolt could be successful outside of local areas in the Deep South. Only South Carolina and Mississippi had majority black populations in 1860 anyway.
 
Okay, so I've been thinking about this and now I'm kinda stumped on a few bits.

I've got a rough idea of what exactly happens to form a confederate states that's primarily run by african americans, but apart from the basics timeline: Confederates win pyrrhic victory then black slaves revolt while white masters are weak, I'm unsure about other things.

For instance, would the Union support it? (I doubt so but the US has a habit of supporting regime changes all the way from Hawaii and Mexican owned California)

Would there be white flight, and to what extent? Would it be like Zimbabwe? Would states secede from the confederacy to the union?
This would work better in ASB. The white population has the guns and military training. A Haitian level of revolt might fuel a genocidal reaction.
 
Not any chances for any slave revolt. Most of slaves hadn't any knowledge about weapons and warring. Them would be crushed like bugs.
 
I think the best bet would be a longer term timeline. The Confederacy is able to just barely gain independence with onky the deep south states (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missippi). The economy of this rump Confederacy becomes overly focused on cotton and flounders. Poor whites flee North. Eventually, by 1900, only the richest of planters and their slaves (who can't leave) are left. The slaves revolt and take over. By this time, there is no taste left in the Union for supporting slavery and they recognize the black-led government.
 
When I think about this, I usually assume that only the two black majority states, Mississippi and Louisiana, would actually revolt, and even then, only in the most concentrated areas of slavery. The Union would, at the very least, send aid to the rebels, perhaps including a blockade, if this happened relatively soon after a theoretical Confederate victory.
 
Okay, so I've been thinking about this and now I'm kinda stumped on a few bits.

I've got a rough idea of what exactly happens to form a confederate states that's primarily run by african americans, but apart from the basics timeline: Confederates win pyrrhic victory then black slaves revolt while white masters are weak, I'm unsure about other things.

For instance, would the Union support it? (I doubt so but the US has a habit of supporting regime changes all the way from Hawaii and Mexican owned California)

Would there be white flight, and to what extent? Would it be like Zimbabwe? Would states secede from the confederacy to the union?

Depends on the outcome. Certainly, I don't think even the most powerful plausible revolt would have any chance of actually overthrowing the C.S. in peacetime.....but if there's been another war, especially if circa say, 1890 or later, I can certainly see the Union being all too happy to oblige in assisting the rebellious slaves, and should the Union win.....well, it would seem to be dependent on how the political situation in the Union is in regards to reunification. If the desire for such remains strong, then these now former slaves will at least receive full U.S. citizenship and, in addition, one possible scenario emerges afterwards; in exchange for laying down their arms, they are given a choice of either settling on confiscated planters' lands, or they may leave the occupied south and move elsewhere, to any location were housing is available(of course, a fair few reactionary types would likely try to cause trouble, sadly, but then again, that's what the state National Guard units would be for; keeping the peace at home. And with attitudes amongst most of the rest of America opposed to all that the Confederacy stood for, strongly so in some cases, there would not be any real tolerance for such shenanigans.). There is also, for those that can, the option to immigrate to Liberia.....

But if it's not as strong.....then it is quite possible, at least, even fairly plausible under the right circumstances, that a rump state may indeed be set up for freed African-Americans post-war.(One possible scenario might involve large parts of MS & AL, and perhaps even much if not all of the Florida Panhandle, being annexed, and maybe even a few other bits added on, like the Florida Parishes in LA). That said, though, for those who'd rather not be part of a new country, they can always move around the U.S, or even go to Liberia if possible, as in the other scenario.....
 
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