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To: tejek who wrote (282725)	4/1/2006 4:24:53 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

"C.S.A.: Confederate States of America" I doubt if slavery would have survived the war very long if the South had won. Robert E. Lee wasn't real fond of the "peculiar institution". He wasn't alone. civilwarhome.com Which is not to say that blacks would have had any status. But being bought and sold on the Internet would not be one of the things that would have been in the cards. Harry Turtledove in his The Great War series has Lincoln eventually leaving the Repubilican party in the wake of the defeat and becoming a Marxist and founding the American Socialist party. A series of events that would have been possible. I don't think he would have stood for the Republicans drift into defending the interests of business.

To: tejek who wrote (282725)	4/4/2006 7:27:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573927

I agree with combjelly, I doubt slavery would have survived in to the Internet age. But maybe in the CSA the end of slavery and later the civil rights movement might all have been moved back decades. It could be like the 50s or 60s today. I'm not sure things would have been different in the North. In fact if the North and South didn't get along well after the war there might have even been a slightly more rapid move to civil rights for blacks in the north. Abraham Lincoln is captured as he tries to escape to Canada What does the CSA supposedly conquer the North? That was never really in the cards. It wasn't even their aim. They might possibly have defeated the north despite all their disadvantages in men, money, production capacity, and transportation infrastructure, but conquering the north would likely have been out of their reach. Tim