I'd like to move this conversation in a somewhat different direction.
It's 1910. The Confederacy is still around, but it's been taken over by a strongman in a wave of popular resentment against the plantation oligarchy. The economy is in shambles and foreign investment and trade is badly needed. However, some countries are starting to avoid doing business with Dixie as it is the only "civilized" country that allows slavery.
The US doesn't want to invade right now because it is busy valiantly defending the rights and freedoms of a fruit corporation in Central America.
What would this strongman do to secure foreign investment and trade?
-There must be nothing called slavery in practice, and the iconic scenes of slave auctions, whippings, and chains must at the very least be out of the public eye.
-At the same time, the former slaves need to go somewhere; the Yankees won't take them and there aren't enough boats to send them to Africa.
-The poor whites who put the strongman in power would riot if they had to live near free blacks, but at the same time there are jobs that whites refuse to do.
What type of system would most effectively solve this strongman's problems?
It's 1910. The Confederacy is still around, but it's been taken over by a strongman in a wave of popular resentment against the plantation oligarchy. The economy is in shambles and foreign investment and trade is badly needed. However, some countries are starting to avoid doing business with Dixie as it is the only "civilized" country that allows slavery.
The US doesn't want to invade right now because it is busy valiantly defending the rights and freedoms of a fruit corporation in Central America.
What would this strongman do to secure foreign investment and trade?
-There must be nothing called slavery in practice, and the iconic scenes of slave auctions, whippings, and chains must at the very least be out of the public eye.
-At the same time, the former slaves need to go somewhere; the Yankees won't take them and there aren't enough boats to send them to Africa.
-The poor whites who put the strongman in power would riot if they had to live near free blacks, but at the same time there are jobs that whites refuse to do.
What type of system would most effectively solve this strongman's problems?