re: LeVar Burton shocked to discover he's descended from a Confederate soldier

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I always wonder if an independent CSA would have been similar to other western nations, or more like Apartheid South Africa.

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Slavery was on its way out either way. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the need for large numbers of workers in the fields was diminishing and would all but be gone within a couple of decades. The only question is what would be the status of blacks in a post-slavery CSA. I’m highly doubtful they’d be allowed rights and citizenship. Instead I’d imagine they would do something similar as the Liberia experiment where they sent blacks back to Africa or encouraged them to settle in other countries like Mexico or the US. But we can only guess about such matters.