‘Black America’: Amazon Alt-History Drama Envisions Post-Reparations America - take that HBO

[Ginger Piglet]

No. One to miss.

There has been precisely one good alternate history novel series where the South won the Civil War, and that's Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory." And that doesn't go past 1945 because it starts to get too far fetched (hint: the Union drops an A-bomb on Charleston and Newport News in retaliation for the truck nuke the Confederates set off in Philadelphia.)

The early volumes, "How Few Remain" set in 1880 and the Great War set ones are proper diamond-hard alt-history though.

 

[Transvaalan]

No. One to miss.

There has been precisely one good alternate history novel series where the South won the Civil War, and that's Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory." And that doesn't go past 1945 because it starts to get too far fetched (hint: the Union drops an A-bomb on Charleston and Newport News in retaliation for the truck nuke the Confederates set off in Philadelphia.)

The early volumes, "How Few Remain" set in 1880 and the Great War set ones are proper diamond-hard alt-history though.

Even then, its pretty stupid and is forced to cater to lefties. Slavery was bound to be an issue, and a bad one, once slaves started being put into factories en masse in the South, which was beginning to industrialize. Which means the White working class which bled by the hundreds of thousands to preserve slavery would be among the first to get pissy about it, leading to bans and regulations on the use of slave labor.

But Turtledove had to make a Hitler. When the usual idea was to ship them en masse to Liberia.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

But Turtledove had to make a Hitler. When the usual idea was to ship them en masse to Liberia.

I'm Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth.

There's a theory that the Hitler analogue was going to be the deeply religious Union flamethrower trooper Gordon McSweeney and that the South would win the Great War, but that was changed around for some reason. Pity, McSweeney as a theocrat literally burning the unbelievers while the free world has to make common cause with the slaveocracy would have been a damned interesting set up.