*nodnod* Makes sense, and Hamilton could have done a lot of good by publicly giving that answer.
It also might have made a fascinating AU: Burr becomes president thanks to Hamilton's very specifically anti-slavery endorsement (and therefore does not kill Hamilton), Hamilton spends Burr's tenure as president trying to hold him to it and make Burr do something in the Room Where It Happens, not just sit there and enjoy the view.
That is a fucking EPIC story idea. The Civil War happens 75 years earlier, leaving the US to expand across 3/4 of its current region and a chunk of Confederacy/Jeffersonia/whatever on the Caribbean and Atlantic coast. The US might have better race relations and the alt-universe Confederacy almost certainly would have worse, maybe even an outright race war. ANd so on and on rippling down through history. Wow.
On the other hand, the second or third generation of Confederate leadership might have looked at emerging world economic and political situation and realize that slavery would keep it a second rate play and voluntarily give up chattel slavery somewhere around 1850 to 1870. Race relations would improve in the Confederacy and (sans the U.S.A.'s bad example) in the rest of the world as well.
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Re: Yo! The country is facing a difficult choice!
Date: 2016-02-18 05:56 pm (UTC)Re: Yo! The country is facing a difficult choice!
Date: 2016-02-19 02:48 am (UTC)It also might have made a fascinating AU: Burr becomes president thanks to Hamilton's very specifically anti-slavery endorsement (and therefore does not kill Hamilton), Hamilton spends Burr's tenure as president trying to hold him to it and make Burr do something in the Room Where It Happens, not just sit there and enjoy the view.
Re: Yo! The country is facing a difficult choice!
Date: 2016-02-19 05:21 am (UTC)Re: Yo! The country is facing a difficult choice!
Date: 2016-02-21 10:05 pm (UTC)