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The second ATL brings up the idea of a more abolitionist, radical regime under Fremont coming to power after Lincoln's assassination by Confederates during the ACW. One of the things they do, which I find to be a very original idea never used elsewhere in AH, is to create the "John Brown Academy" in the Sea Islands to train the best and brightest of freed slaves for partisan warfare in the South. Of course, this ends up creating a completely clusterfuck of a postwar, but at least the CSA lost so it's all good, eh?

Anyhow, under what circumstances could abolitionists/radical Black Republicans have taken charge of the war effort, and what would they have done differently? Besides training blacks for extreme guerilla warfare, what else could they have done?
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