Sure. From Foner's Reconstruction:
South Carolina implemented "heavy taxation of uncultivated land to weaken the system of “large land monopolies” and promote “the division and sale of unoccupied lands among the poorer classes.” In July, the state convention adopted essentially the same...
Or that guy who both made nitrogen fertilizers and gas weapons.
Certainly. Many Republican regimes in the South actually taxed land like no other Southern governments had ever done. One of the first things every "Redeemer" government did was abolishing these land taxes and replacing them with...
Hm while there may be some controversy, I don't think any official is going to seriously suggest making such a distinction, for it would seem to imbue the Confederate government with a degree of legitimacy if its politicians are given a better treatment compared with other rebels. If anything, I...
Btw, in case anyone missed it, I've already posted the second chapter of the new TL, over at the new thread here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/reconstruction-the-second-american-revolution-the-sequel-to-until-every-drop-of-blood-is-paid.551503/page-12#post-24993806
You're...
Yeah, a much more traumatizing Civil War is bound to cause much more widespread PTSD and then, hopefully, a greater understanding of the condition, how to treat it, and empathy for those who have it.
Yes, at the end they courted their own destruction. I think it was mentioned that the...
You're right, I have threadmarked that. Thank you for writing these!
Hm that's true, but in popular memory the planters will remain the paramount "villains," most likely.
Please like the update and share any thoughts you might have! :)
It'll take much longer to see the first Black President... probably after the turn of the century. What's true is that there will be a class of Black politicians and party bosses. We could see Black families with an august lineage...
Hope you enjoy the chapter! The main difficulty I will face writing this thing is that there's just so much stuff going on at the same time, and I can't analyze it as once. We'll get to all other subjects in due time, for now I wanted to focus on how the last remnants of slavery were destroyed...
Threadmarks: Chapter 2: We Are Bound for Freedom's Light
Chapter 2: We Are Bound for Freedom's Light
Emancipation and Land Reform in the last months of the war and at the start of the Military Occupation
Slavery in the United States did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation of July 4, 1862, nor did it end with the final victory over the...
Oh, that bastard! Sullying the name of the Union's heroes!
Great update. I love TLs that dedicate as much time and detail to the homefront and economic and social issues as political and military ones. No history is complete without knowing what's actually happening on the ground to all the...
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I hadn't considered it, but you're right that there's the unfortunate implication that the war was only for the planter class and that the poor people had not stake in it but were just forced to fight against their will - which is the myth we've been...
Thank you for your kind words! I'm really glad you liked the first TL, I hope you will like this one too.
Given the circumstances of his birth, he very well could have died in the famine. But, assuming he lives, since many of his relatives were actual Klansmen, he very well could see the Klan...
If limited land redistribution would have been too far for Lincoln, he would have certainly overruled Sherman's orders. He did not. So I fully believe he would have signed the original bill too. As for Bureau land, while it's true that as things stood in 1865 OTL there was little hope for a...
Just to give you an example, the original Freedman's Bureau bill contemplated making it permanent, declared that the freedmen could hold onto the lands redistributed by General Sherman's orders by three years, and authorized the Bureau to provide land to the dispossessed. Johnson's veto killed...
The unraveling of Reconstruction under Johnson started pretty early, and while the official guidelines for the organization, election, and workings of the Constitutional Convention might not differ that much, Lincoln would have done several things quite differently. Just take Louisiana, for...