Confederate Union

An Alternative Civil War History

De: Alan Sewell

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What if pro-slavery Democrats kept their party united and won the election of 1860?

What if Jefferson Davis became President of a pro-slavery Union, while Abraham Lincoln must decide whether to fight for a new birth of freedom outside it?

In this alternate history, there will be no secession of the South. But what about the anti-slavery men in the North? Will the United States, now styled “The Confederate Union,” still be their country?

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better-- This is a most valuable, -- a most sacred right -- a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“It needs the united power, harmonious action and concentrated will of the people of all these States to roll the wheel of progress to the end which our fathers contemplated, and which their sons, if they are wise and true, may behold. This great country will remain united.”

- Jefferson Davis

Might have been good if…

I picture the author with his mom’s encyclopedia. Britannica set, opened up next to the word processor way too obsessed with minutia details and rattling off names more or less lost to history just to show that he can. To do so cost momentum and a decent storyline

Fun idea well executed

Loved the story. It was the right mix of real history and randomness that is the hallmark of good alt history.
The narration was painful