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In 1864 Patrick Cleburne, the "Stonewall of the West", recognized the CSA was losing the war and pleaded for negro troops to be raised in order to make up for the loss of manpower.
Suppose the government takes it seriously and, thanks to increased manpower and a moral reversal (south is freeing their slaves while north still has his), manage to win their independence.
How would a Confederacy that won its independence thanks to black people be like? Culturally, economically, etc. And how would the US react to such a defeat?
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