Confederate Alaska?

Lazer_Pages

Lazer_Pages

There’s also the slight problem that a country denominated by a cotton loving aristocracy probably wouldn’t want a barren icebox that, just, can’t come close to growing cotton.
 
vortiger

vortiger

possible yes, but very unlikely. hell is was refereed to as Sewards folly for a reason and it would be even more absurd for the csa without a port on the pacific coast.
 

Thisisnotausername

Assuming something resembling the OTL Confederacy, nothing closer to the Pacific than El Paso? Russia might offer, CS would refuse, it's too far away and utterly useless for plantation farming. On the other hand, if something like the Pico Act goes through earlier and the resulting slave state in SoCal joins the Confederacy so that they actually have access to the Pacific... Still probably no, for the same reasons. It's not impossible but there's just not really a good case for it.
 

Lalli

No, at least if it CSA very same as OTL. CSA hadn't even any coast of Pacific which would had helped them possess Alaska. Furthermore USA wouldn't accept that. And Confederates were ratherly intrested about expansion to Caribbean and Central America. Alaska can't even afford plantation of cotton so it wouldn't be very attractive.
 

David T

The closest thing I can see is selling Alaska to a Pacific Coast Republic aligned to the Confederacy. William Gwin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Gwin a Mississippian living in California and one of California's first senators, was one of the first Americans to take an interest in the US buying Alaska. Gwin attempted to get California to secede and form such a republic in 1861. But Gwin's pro-southern "Chivalry" faction of the Democratic Party had lost support after the Broderick-Terry duel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderick–Terry_duel and the chances of California seceding were dim.
 
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