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What if the North and the Confederate States had fought themselves to an exhausted standstill, and during this lull the black slaves had risen under a charismatic military leader to launch a more or less successful rebellion and demanded and obtained the creation of an independent negro state on the territory currently occupied by New Mexico and eastern Arizona, and then a few years later oil was discovered...?
How would the situation develop? A Gulf-type oil state? A black government in Spartacus City? Blacks employing white servants? Whites arguing about whether black men can play the blues?
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