what wouldve happened if the confederates would have won the civil war...would there still be slavery?

Question

thatd be so cool!

Answer 1

Michael Richards would be a happy man.

Answer 2

There are some very good answers here. I think the chances of the South ever winning the Civil War are so slim that they are hardly worth mentioning although Harry Turtledove has done a wonderful job of spinning his what "if tale" and I am also hooked on that series.

Economically, for the long haul, slavery was a bust but it was also the foundation of the entire southern economy. Despite what latter day southern apologists claim the only reason that the South attempted to secede was to protect slavery. Some today like to claim that slavery wasn't even involved in the equation and that secession was only to protect the southerners "rights" while neglecting to mention that the only right that was ever imperiled was the right to own slaves. I'm almost shocked that somebody hasn't tried to make that false claim thus far in this question. It is true that most southerners didn't own slaves and that the average southerner in the army probably didn't feel that he was fighting to preserve slavery. He was probably fighting to protect his home and to preserve his way of life but again, that way of life was based upon slavery regardless of whether he owned slaves or not so no matter how you might try to pretty it up the war was about, and because of, slavery. The modern Southern apologists also like to repeat the stale old lie that Lincoln was willing throughout the war to allow the southern states to return to the Union and keep their slaves even though anyone with a smattering of historical knowledge recognizes that old falsehood for what it is. I mention this only because with your comment about how if slavery still existed "Thatd be so cool" you might be one of those characters. You certainly don't have any appreciation of the evil that slavery was so it is reasonable to assume that your knowledge of other aspects of history will be equally spars.

In answer to your question the Southern Confederacy, if it had somehow won it's independence, would never have had the chance to become a strong nation and the American South would have resembled the Balkland's of today. The central government of the Confederacy was so weak that during the war several states, Georgia was one, considered seceding from the Confederacy. Individual states would have been more like little nation states, think Bosnia and Serbia, always squabbling with one another with no national direction. With no heavy industry and an economy based upon slavery the south would have been a pariah nation on the world stage and held a virtual begger status. Cotton value had fallen through the floor due to British cotton fields in India going into production and the South had little else to export. Despite what some will claim the south was barely able to feed itself, so much land having been given over to cotton production and without cotton as high priced barter on the world market or the norths help the old south was doomed to fail. Changing over to a non slave based economy would have torn apart what little structure there was to the Confederacy's government, there would never have been a chance for it to develope into a super power, and the fragments would have been picked up mostly by the union to the north and possibly even some parts by Mexico to the south.

A bloody and tragic chapter in American history but we can be thankful that it ended as it did.

Answer 3

It's very doubtful that slavery would have existed for very long after a Confederacy win during the civil war. The industrial revolution was in full swing and hand labor for the most part was on the way out. The abolitionists wanted to free the southern slaves but in truth of the reasons for the war was states rights. A typical southern slave owner had the majority of his assets tied up in the value of their slaves and wanted and needed the money that they represented. It was like the slave owners were saying OK free the slaves but where's my money. I'm not saying there was anything good about slavery and it is abhorred in modern thinking but it happened a long time ago and discussing it in this way does not make a person a racist. It does make for interesting discussion and I beleive someone wrote a book in which the NAZIs won WWll.

Answer 4

Even if the Confederates won the Civil War, the victory would have been hollow. The South was already getting poor and economically far behind the North. If the South won, they would not have been able to govern the nation, so likely would have just seceded.

The the invention of the cotton gin, there was no further need for slave labor. Even today, the cost of feeding slave labor would be much higher than the cost of maintaining cotton farming equipment.

Hmmm. "So cool"? I don't think you understand the truly horrendous state of affairs people suffered under American slavery.

Answer 5

State's rights became the significant concern there, it is what they are trying to communicate about. although, the state precise in innovations became remedy of African individuals in the southern states. fairly, you're both precise. The reliable reason, even with the truth that, is because the North would not enable the south keep their state's rights. The conflict became fought by using those who did not start up it. It became a wealthy guy's conflict. Many southerners were dirt adverse and did not own any slaves. I do like one section in the Mississippi secession that you probably did not placed, even with the truth that, that proved amazingly authentic: It seeks no longer to lift or to help the slave, yet to smash his modern-day condition without providing a more desirable ideal. besides, who're those "neo-confederates" you're speaking about? If historians were neo-confederates, would not this is preached that the south gained?

Answer 6

Slavery was on its way out before the Civil War. There was no legal transportation of slaves into the US, and it was the south that decided that little law so it is unlikely that they would have repealed it.

As for the country itself, well, both the North and the South would have changed dramatically. You see, the south had all the food and raw materials, but the north had all the waterways, shipping to other countries, and manufacturing. Which was one of the ways the north won. We starved 'em, out gunned 'em, and surrounded 'em. Remember, only the south wanted to succeed, not the west.

Answer 7

Slavery would have ended eventually because it would have become less and less profitable and acceptable.
As for the Confederacy winning the war? It probably would have turned into something like the relationship we have with Canada, except the Confederay would probably be very conservative. And we would probably still be on friendly terms.

Answer 8

i think if the south had won the war they came back to the union eventaualy. the war broke the south so even if they had won they would have needed help and would have come back

Answer 9

I doubt it. If we were to have progressed to have become a globalized world as we are now, foreign countries would have pressured us to eliminate slavery.
And no, slavery is not cool.