Years ago, in a Usenet thread about Lincoln’s unconstitutional reconquest of the South, someone asked me (I paraphrase): “As a descendant of slaves, why should I prefer to live in that alternate history where the CSA continued to keep slaves after 1865?”<\/p>\n
I had no answer then, but one has recently occurred to me:<\/p>\n
For several reasons I believe that slavery was more likely to end if secession was successful than if the secession had never happened. If the end of slavery were not<\/em> tied to a tremendous grudge of blood and devastation, might not social equality come sooner even if formal liberation came later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years ago, in a Usenet thread about Lincoln’s unconstitutional reconquest of the South, someone asked me (I paraphrase): “As a descendant of slaves, why should I prefer to live in that alternate history where the CSA continued to keep slaves … Continue reading