Is it possible for there to be an ACW sceanario where rather then the slave owners, it's the slaves themselves who take up arms against the federal government following some kind of slave revolution? What would be the best way for this to happen? What would be the long term outcome?
Perhaps a massive fleeing of slaves south into Florida during the seminole wars?
Educated freemen could have stocked up arms and went to Florida to prepare for the Revolution and made contact with Haitians for assistance in supplies?
How much would it have taken for such a revolt to take Florida and have a massive exodus south by slaves who killed their masters.
Then Haitian commanders arrive in Florida and train them to form a proper army?
Perhaps a massive fleeing of slaves south into Florida during the seminole wars?
Educated freemen could have stocked up arms and went to Florida to prepare for the Revolution and made contact with Haitians for assistance in supplies?
How much would it have taken for such a revolt to take Florida and have a massive exodus south by slaves who killed their masters.
Then Haitian commanders arrive in Florida and train them to form a proper army?
I think that in order to succeed it would also require another country helping the slaves (not likely, no major powers have enough beef with America to risk inspiring slave revolts in their own countries), some sort disease or other catastrophe that can significantly weaken America but somehow not weaken the slaves(any ideas?).
Britain probably wouldn't have supported the revolt, they didn't help Haiti even though they were at war with France and they had troops at Jamaica that could assist the slaves. Mexico is a possibility, they didn't have massive slave populations to worry about.How was Mexico looking at this time?
Wasn't the British still hostile at this time and the war of 1812 coming?
If the conflict goes on long enough they could be concurrent.
Also couldn't this be used by the northern abolitionist to say "look what the south has pushed them to! we can't have this breaking the country in a few years we have a continent to unite!"
Was Gran Columbia around yet?
I am looking for supporting states but they are hard to find.
Could Morocco open up trade with them and sell ships to the black freemen prewar they used to transport the arms from the east coast down to Florida and from Orleans to Florida?
Then couldn't New Orleans have supporting ships leave for Florida with native american and black freedmen brought in to be troops?
Cuban rebel groups could be supporters if they exist at this time?
Perhaps a massive fleeing of slaves south into Florida during the seminole wars?
Educated freemen could have stocked up arms and went to Florida to prepare for the Revolution and made contact with Haitians for assistance in supplies?
How much would it have taken for such a revolt to take Florida and have a massive exodus south by slaves who killed their masters.
Then Haitian commanders arrive in Florida and train them to form a proper army?
I imagine that northerners would strongly object to a federal draft to put down such a slave revolt, even more so if they're abolitionists already. "Why should I die just so some lazy sadist southerner can have victims to beat?"
...which could lead to mutinies to the side of the slaves. But a draft would probably require a BIG slave revolt, with arms and such supplied by Northern abolitionists.
Perhaps a massive fleeing of slaves south into Florida during the seminole wars?
Educated freemen could have stocked up arms and went to Florida to prepare for the Revolution and made contact with Haitians for assistance in supplies?
How much would it have taken for such a revolt to take Florida and have a massive exodus south by slaves who killed their masters.
Then Haitian commanders arrive in Florida and train them to form a proper army?
I think that in order to succeed it would also require another country helping the slaves (not likely, no major powers have enough beef with America to risk inspiring slave revolts in their own countries), some sort disease or other catastrophe that can significantly weaken America but somehow not weaken the slaves(any ideas?), a government that is willing to screw the Southern half of their nation(probably not) or a civil war (probably not enough abolitionists willing to take up arms against the government). Their best chance probably is that if the war is bloody/destructive enough the government might emancipate them to calm them down but give the no property so that they basically work as wage-slaves (this happened in Haiti for a few years).