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Has anyone actually done a reasonably sensible alternate history (not one where the union defeats the confederates, british and french simply becuase the north was fighting for right) where the British do help the Confederacy, forge an alliance and a joint confederacy/british force wins the civil war?

I`ve read several where the south just wins outright but I can`t remember any where the british and south forge and alliance and win. I`ve always thought it would have made sense because if you take slavery out of the equation then the north is in the wrong. All states should have the right to seccede and the north were essentially waging war against another nation.

It would laso be intersting to seee the aftermath. The south prob wouldn`t want to conquer the north, they wouldn`t have the man power to do it anyway so they would prob just fortify the confederacy as a soverign nation. With british backing they could become industruialized and eventually lose the neccesity for the institutuion of slavery.

This of course doesn`t mean the south would become all nice and friendly to the slaves. They would still fear them and their retribution. As a knock-on effect they could drag britain backwards culturally. For Britain to have an allaince with the south and to have a good econimic relationship going based off britains industry and the south`s cotton Britain would have to at least on some level change its position to condoning slavery.

The north would after rebuilding its strength become obviously rather anti-british.

Long term side effects of a british-confederate alliance would be a lack of the american superpower (the union and confederacy would be big powers but neither would probably become a superpower), different outcome to world war one (britain could easily have called on the south to fight at the outbreak of war in 1914) which could have prevented world war two, communist russia and the cold war. New wars could have filled the void though as the united states would be a very anti-british state and Britain would be the dominant power in the 21st century with its empire propped up by southern money and industry.

Whether this would mean that the british empire through its alliance with the south would become a slave empire would be an interesting question.
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