AHC: John C Fremont - Southern Fire Eater.

As we all know, John C Fremont was one of the most ardent abolitionists and a diehard republican. So, lets make him an ardent diehard pro-slavery man.

For example. His mother was Virginian.
He was born in Georgia
He was educated in Charleston, South Carolina
He married Thomas Hart Benton's daughter, Jessie Benton. Thomas Benton was the champion of Manifest Destiny, which a lot of slavocrats supported, and Benton used his ability in the Senate to ensure that Fremont was appointed to all of the exploratroy expeditions into the west.

SO, most of upbringing is entirely Southern, especially given that he was educated in both Georgia and South Carolina - two of the most ardent slave states - so it should not be too hard to try and get Fremont into being a pro-slavery man because of it?
 
As we all know, John C Fremont was one of the most ardent abolitionists and a diehard republican. So, lets make him an ardent diehard pro-slavery man.

For example. His mother was Virginian.
He was born in Georgia
He was educated in Charleston, South Carolina
He married Thomas Hart Benton's daughter, Jessie Benton. Thomas Benton was the champion of Manifest Destiny, which a lot of slavocrats supported, and Benton used his ability in the Senate to ensure that Fremont was appointed to all of the exploratroy expeditions into the west.

SO, most of upbringing is entirely Southern, especially given that he was educated in both Georgia and South Carolina - two of the most ardent slave states - so it should not be too hard to try and get Fremont into being a pro-slavery man because of it?

You'd have to make a LOT of changes in this man's personal life.....and I honestly wouldn't know just where to start.

(And, btw, support for M.D. was far, far from universal amongst the Slavocrats.....John C. Calhoun, for one, was extremely skeptical of it.....and there were a fair number of anti-slavery people who wholeheartedly supported it)
 
You'd have to make a LOT of changes in this man's personal life.....and I honestly wouldn't know just where to start.

(And, btw, support for M.D. was far, far from universal amongst the Slavocrats.....John C. Calhoun, for one, was extremely skeptical of it.....and there were a fair number of anti-slavery people who wholeheartedly supported it)

You have the POD early enough in his life, hell, the POD does not actually have to be himself - and as long as he is a child/teenager living in the south it should mold him as such.
 
You have the POD early enough in his life, hell, the POD does not actually have to be himself - and as long as he is a child/teenager living in the south it should mold him as such.

Maybe, but not necessarily: James G. Birney was born a Kentuckian and spent a good chunk of his adult life in Alabama, but he ended up being an abolitionist himself, despite that.
 
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