![]() Part of the idea at work here is that history has a mighty inertia it takes a lot more than a little thing like the absence of the Civil War to transform its course utterly. of the 21 st century is still recovering from a protracted war over Texas’ attempt to secede in the 1960s instead of a quagmire in Southeast Asia. ![]() Some figures from our own world-Michael Jackson, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr.-seem to have played very similar roles to the ones they played in history, with only a few key variations. The Hard Four prosper by trading with less picky foreign markets, but their principal products (meat, cotton, textiles) are not exactly the stuff of postindustrial boom economies. ![]() Most American free states boycott slave-made goods as well. Japanese cars are difficult to obtain because Japan, like the developed nations of Europe, imposes sanctions on the United States so that the rest of the Union will pressure the remaining holdout states-known as the Hard Four-to abolish slavery. James Brown, an escaped slave, becomes an international star who refuses to perform in his homeland. ![]() in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before he had the chance to serve a day as president. ![]() Alternate histories (also known as “counterfactuals”) tempt their readers to nitpick on the details of their world-building. ![]()
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