Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191
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Picture of Camp Slaves during a War of Succession event, Tampa, Flordia, 1927.
Despite not being actual soldiers, Camp Slaves were allowed into War of Succession events. These events were used for propaganda to justify the role blacks in the CSA faced following the Second Mexican War. Gabriel Semmes would cite Camp Slaves as one reason for allowing blacks into the Confederate army. During and after the Great War, and even under Featherston's rule, Camp Slaves were used as examples of "Well-behaved Neg***s."
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Nice addition.
Though, I think that by the time of Featherston's rule, they would have been "disappeared". A historical lacuna unfulfilled until after 1944.
With that said, I can see something along the lines of "The War of Secession was Fought over States Rights" becoming the Founding Myth of the Confederacy after the Second Mexican War.
True, I imagined Featherston would use Camp Slaves to justify the role blacks in the CSA faced, at least before the Population Reducation.
Picture of a Neo-Confederate protest, Remembrance Day, 2015, Alamance County, North Carolina.
Much like in Canada (more information: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...federacy-tl-191.185493/page-312#post-24124856), protests against the United States in the former Confederacy are high on Remembrance Day. However, protests heightened, due to the day tying into the Confederacy, along with February 8th, Confederate Independence Day.
Russian Neo-Actionists and Neo-Freedomites holding an Anti-Government rally in Moscow, Russian Social Republic, circa 2016.
War of Succession veterans event on February 8, 1907, Confederate Independence Day. In front of this image of the Jefferson Davis Memorial is George Washington Custis Lee, the son of Robert E. Lee and cousin of Fitzhugh Lee, President of the Confederate States (1874-1880), on horseback.
No way that Featherston goes after Mexicans. Mexico was ally of CSA so it would be stupid go after them. Otheriwse agree. I think that Featherston generally targetted against them who weren't whites. Even that gave for Freedomites enough doing since them had go with full-scale war against USA.
A transcript from a Devastation Survivor remembering when she first met a Union Army officer, who later became her husband.
Photograph of Germéne Cuney, ca. early 21st century, while visiting Haiti.
Interviewer: ... and then what happened after you landed on Faustin Island?
Germéne: The king organized all the Haitian men to prepare for a defense of the Island. I could barely walk due to all the running I did to escape being captured at Camp Morón. I stayed with the few women and children left where they healed me.
Interviewer: How old were you?
Germéne: I was barely 20 at the time.
Interviewer: What happened to your family?
Germéne: They were all shot when the Dominican Army, under orders from Trujillo, invaded Haiti. This was four years after the Massacre of '37.
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Interviewer: What happened after your king died?
Germéne: I stood on the beaches of the island, expecting for more Confederate forces to finally invade us. But when I saw giant ships without any Confederate symbols, I knew that this was different. The moment I saw an eagle on a shield with two swords, I knew that I was free... I had prayed and prayed for seven years to be rescued, but the reality hadn't really sunk in at the time. I couldn't absorb the possibility that my prayers were answered and that I was on the verge of experiencing liberation... until I felt extreme sense of comfort and joy at seeing several Union Army officers land near where I was.
The first one to touch the sandy beach was a Black-skinned man wearing a steel helmet and a green-gray uniform; someone who looked like me and fought for someone like me. As I stood on the beaches, the Black-skinned Union officer was the first one to approach me. I looked at him with incredible awe and disbelief. I told him that we had fought against the Confederates from killing us. He didn't answer me at first, which seemed like an eternity, until he smiled and said, "So was I." It was the greatest moment of my life. He then asked me if he could see the civilians left on the island. He asked my permission if I could lead him to them. His words restored my humanity. He would later ask my permission to spend the rest of his life with me for the next 30 years.
Interviewer: His name?
Germéne: William Waring Cuney
Inspiration:
and
https://wamu.org/story/17/10/07/80-...revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre/
Photograph of Germéne Cuney, ca. early 21st century, while visiting Haiti.
Interviewer: ... and then what happened after you landed on Faustin Island?
Germéne: The king organized all the Haitian men to prepare for a defense of the Island. I could barely walk due to all the running I did to escape being captured at Camp Morón. I stayed with the few women and children left where they healed me.
Interviewer: How old were you?
Germéne: I was barely 20 at the time.
Interviewer: What happened to your family?
Germéne: They were all shot when the Dominican Army, under orders from Trujillo, invaded Haiti. This was four years after the Massacre of '37.
***
Interviewer: What happened after your king died?
Germéne: I stood on the beaches of the island, expecting for more Confederate forces to finally invade us. But when I saw giant ships without any Confederate symbols, I knew that this was different. The moment I saw an eagle on a shield with two swords, I knew that I was free... I had prayed and prayed for seven years to be rescued, but the reality hadn't really sunk in at the time. I couldn't absorb the possibility that my prayers were answered and that I was on the verge of experiencing liberation... until I felt extreme sense of comfort and joy at seeing several Union Army officers land near where I was.
The first one to touch the sandy beach was a Black-skinned man wearing a steel helmet and a green-gray uniform; someone who looked like me and fought for someone like me. As I stood on the beaches, the Black-skinned Union officer was the first one to approach me. I looked at him with incredible awe and disbelief. I told him that we had fought against the Confederates from killing us. He didn't answer me at first, which seemed like an eternity, until he smiled and said, "So was I." It was the greatest moment of my life. He then asked me if he could see the civilians left on the island. He asked my permission if I could lead him to them. His words restored my humanity. He would later ask my permission to spend the rest of his life with me for the next 30 years.
Interviewer: His name?
Germéne: William Waring Cuney
Inspiration:
https://wamu.org/story/17/10/07/80-...revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre/
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