After the battle of Gettysburg , the south try's to sell off or exterminate as many slaves and free blacks as possible to insure white dominance post war.How effective would this be ,How would postwar south look like
Well, assuming they ship the blacks back to Africa, which they tried to, they would have a much more cohesive society (no KKK, for example, and no segregation). Meanwhile, you would have the blacks in Africa, which they would have land to farm and some relative educational superiority over the natives and could even try to enstablish some governments (as Us protectorates, thus shielded from the european imperialism of the era). Honestly, i don't know why the post CW states didn't try to give this opportunity to the newly freed slaves.
After the battle of Gettysburg , the south try's to sell off or exterminate as many slaves and free blacks as possible to insure white dominance post war.How effective would this be ,How would postwar south look like
mass murder for racial supremacy is simply not within the imagination of people in 1860.
What a horrible idea....
In 1863 the CSA had no way to export any slave to a foreign country due to the blockade and the loss of the Mississippi River, thus they could not move them.
So...
If the CSA tried to kill their slaves; I could see the war would evolve into a crusade against the South. By 1863 the Confederates would not have the time to kill that many, and anger and disgust would be so great that Americans would cue up to fight to stop the slaughter. Heck, I could even see the Great Powers intervening on the USA side to stop the killing.
This would lead to a much more extreme Reconstruction after the war ended. CSA leaders, (both military and civil), and slave owners would probably executed. Large portions of the South would given to the remaining freed slaves and the whites living there would be removed and dispersed.
What a terrible, horrible, awful mess.
Well blacks were already the majority in some parts of the south, so its not exactly a complete comparison.I am not sure. Many Northerners did not see the former slaves as fully human (a few seem to have trouble with it to this day) and, while disgusted by Southern brutality, may not be motivate to go to the extreme to avenge it.
After all, a part of the drive for Abolitionism was not to have black people around, slave or otherwise.
Your scenario would be the analogue of the Morgenthau Plan with Israel established in the Rhineland, something that the Allies (including a Soviet Union in a very unforgiving mood) thought too extreme (I don't think that a Jewish state on formerly German land was ever considered even marginally in the immediate WWII aftermath), and that after crimes to a scale where whatever the Confederacy may try would pale.
Well blacks were already the majority in some parts of the south, so its not exactly a complete comparison.
After the battle of Gettysburg , the south try's to sell off or exterminate as many slaves and free blacks as possible to insure white dominance post war.How effective would this be ,How would postwar south look like
Though of course as everyone has said the base idea of the government up and doing this is rather mad and outright ASB there could be some room to imagine a lessened version. Some group who sees the writing on the wall and gets very scared of all these free black people running about so they decide to kill off as many as they can.
That could make for something interesting
The Cheyenne massacred at Sand Creek in 1864 would probably disagree.
I agree with the rest of your assessment however. Keeping the black population in the CSA, as slaves, was the whole point of there being a CSA in the first place, as the very often cited Cornerstone Speech made clear (I am aware that there were other factors, but the vast majority of them boiled down to slavery in the end, and the Southern elites of the time had actually a very clear perception of this).
What a horrible idea....
...In 1863 the CSA had no way to export any slave to a foreign country due to the blockade and the loss of the Mississippi River, thus they could not move them.
So basically you are running around killing the property of very wealthy people who are currently waging war to defend said property.
This sounds like it's not going to work out.
How come?
As you said, they're off at war. And they live in pretty isolated areas.
There's a lot of room for a worse KKK to really mess things up as the CSA collapses.