In a slave keeping country, have the slaves launch a revolution that overthrows the established government. It can be any state throughout history from Rome to Brazil.
Isn't that Haiti?
Could a late war Slave revolt in the CSA depose Jeff Davis?
No, it couldn't. The Union might be in position to back it, but Confederate military power, while diminished, would easily handle a slave revolt.
Maybe you could have the slaves on whatever Georgia farm he was hiding in after Richmond fell revolt and capture or kill him, but as for a 1864-65 revolt of slaves that manages to topple Davis? No. If the Union Army took 9 months to get into Richmond, a slave revolt isn't going to do the job.
Not on its own no but if you have a revolt in late 1864 that would probably be more than the Confederate military could handle. The army and Home Guard were already stretched to the breaking point by Grant, Sherman, and Thomas as it was. While theoretically the Confederate military could beat a slave uprising in OTL they didn't have the resources or free hand necessary to make that work. If anything a significant slave revolt would have probably ended the war faster as the disruption to logistics, increased troop demands, and sharp reduction in what qualifies as safe territory.
No, it couldn't. The Union might be in position to back it, but Confederate military power, while diminished, would easily handle a slave revolt.
Maybe you could have the slaves on whatever Georgia farm he was hiding in after Richmond fell revolt and capture or kill him, but as for a 1864-65 revolt of slaves that manages to topple Davis? No. If the Union Army took 9 months to get into Richmond, a slave revolt isn't going to do the job.
In a slave keeping country, have the slaves launch a revolution that overthrows the established government. It can be any state throughout history from Rome to Brazil.
Unless it erupted right inside Richmond, I don't really see the slaves beating the Union Army to it.
Don't you mean the Third Servile War?
Anyway : keep in mind that the gladiatoral part of the army was only a minority. Most of it was made by latifundiae workers, poor but free peasantry, etc. Meaning only a really limited experience of war, in face of semi-professional armies.
It does seems, furthermore, that the goal of at least part of the slaves (probably for Spartacus' group, less clear for Crixos') wasn't to create a state but to leave the hell out of Italy : giving that an important part of the captives were coming from near provinces, such as Gauls, that was a more realistic plan than to try to pull an Antiochus.