NI: Foreign Policy after Successful Reconstruction

Here's something else I was thinking about for this TL, which could have FP consequences, but OTOH may need its own thread:

Suppose Jefferson Davis and a few extra disbanded CSA government members escaped, and they happen to all end up in London. My thinking is, since they happen to be in the same city, at the least they'd get together every so often.

Could this turn into something else? Is it possible they'd be in any position to cause trouble? Can you see this having any effects?

No, the Brits would be eager to normalize relations with the United States and would keep the exiles on a leash. The ex-Confederates may even end up fleeing to Madrid (that has potential) or Paris or elsewhere to escape extradition.
 
Land reform is EXTREMELY unlikely and Eminent Domain would be unlikely to help. Until recently it was always considered to be used only for the public good and could only be used for government property of some sort or a public utility. It could not be used just to hand over property to a private citizen. If they did so and were able to get away with it the most likely land reform would be to give it to Union Veterans, black or white.


And the veterans would at least have money, which they would need if they were to keep the land for any length of time.

Crucial question - would the white veterans continue to ally with their black "comrades", or would they, once living among Southerners, look for reconciliation, and quickly adopt the local attitudes on race? From what I know of how blacks were viewed in the north, I suspect the latter.
 
Thanks to Dr Pervez! Now I'm wondering if, after exile to Madrid, this pushes up the Spanish American War even further? I was sceptical the US would jump into such a war with troops still in the south, but might this complicate that?
 
I was sceptical the US would jump into such a war with troops still in the south, but might this complicate that?

The Union might see a "short victorious war" as a means of binding the South back to the Union, especially since earlier in the 19th Century, many Southerners wanted to snatch Cuba from Spain (for slavery purposes).
 
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