AHC: Emancipated South vs Ambivalent North

Make this situation happen:

A slave rebellion friendly to poor whites (perhaps incited by a white frontiersman) takes over the South.

The federal government moves in to regain control over the area. A rebellion regardless of the motives is against their interests, and the Northerners still disliked abolitionists at that point. Plus the rebels probably had to confiscate their weapons.

Thus, an emancipated South defends itself against an ambivalent North.

Bonus points if this actually occurs from a successful John Brown rebellion.
 
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For this to happen, you need to butterfly or break much of the influence the Planter class had on Southern culture (I do think this has been overplayed by others in the past, but they were influential nonetheless). That, and having John Brown play a key part is ASB for the purposes of the thread, he would never have been accepted by Southerners (due if nothing else to the fact that he wasn't one of them).
 
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