>Garibaldi expressed interest in aiding the Union, and he was offered a major general's commission in the U.S. Army through a letter from Secretary of State William H. Seward to Henry Shelton Sanford, the U.S. Minister at Brussels, 27 July 1861.What if he had joined the Union?
Literally every problem in America would have been solved if Lincoln had the balls to execute every Confederate leader and general and allow the freed slaves ownership of the plantation territories.
>>18241826OH NO NO NO NO NO NO
>>18241826>allow the freed slaves ownership of the plantation territories.You think slaves know how to own stuff? They would fuck it up
>>18241826>least bloodthirsty leftist
>>18241826I'm going to go ahead and say what I think 19th century Southerners were trying to. The Northeastern part of the country produces a lot, lot, lot of absolutely horrid ideas and is culturally conducive to allowing low quality men into positions of leadership. The Old South might not have been all moonlight and magnolias, but it served as an important counterbalance the aforementioned idiocy. Destruction of the Old South removed an important cultural and ideological pillar from American life which directly paved the way to the Gilded Age and pseudodemocratic reforms which served to centralize wealth and power in the hands on an elite which cared little for America, its people, or its principles. Yes, slavery was bad. No, I don't care about your opinion on black people.
>>18241798He was a massive sperglord
>>18241826Land reform in any shape whatsoever ever being on the table in America is delusional. If Lincoln did that, every property holder in the north would either immediately arrange a coup or declare Jefferson Davis to be the legitimate president of the United States because they would be next once their wagies start to question their own relation to capital.
>>18241798But the Union won anyways, what would have been different?
>>18242049An earlier Union victory could change reconstruction
