In Ben Winters' Underground Airlines, slavery has remained legal in the "Hard Four" ( Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and a unified Carolina) and slaves are controlled by electronic device implanted in their spines. Examples include the 2004 mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, where the United States is annexed by the Confederate States and slavery continues. The South wins the Civil War, and slavery still exists as of the time of the story.ĭepictions of the later development of a victorious Confederacy vary considerably from one another, especially on two major interrelated issues: the independent Confederacy's treatment of its black population and its relations with the rump United States in the North. Still another related variant is a scenario of a Civil War that breaks out at a different time from 1861 and under different circumstances (such as the North, rather than the South, seceding from the Union).Īmerican Civil War alternate histories are one of the two most popular points of divergence to create an alternate history in the English language, the other being an Axis victory in World War II. It can also be an "unnatural" fantasy/ science fiction plot device such as time travel, which usually takes the form of someone bringing modern weapons or hindsight knowledge into the past. The point of divergence in such a story can be a "natural, realistic" event, such as one general making a different decision, or one sentry detecting an enemy invasion unlike in reality.
Less common variants include a Union victory under different circumstances from actual history, resulting in a different postwar situation black American slaves freeing themselves by revolt without waiting for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation a direct British and/or French intervention in the war the survival of Lincoln during John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempt a retelling of historical events with fantasy elements inserted the Civil War never breaking out and a peaceful compromise being reached and secret history tales. The most common variants detail the victory and survival of the Confederate States. The American Civil War is a popular point of divergence in English-language alternate history fiction. American Civil War alternate histories are alternate history fiction that focuses on the Civil War ending differently or not occurring.
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