Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America, generally known just as the Confederacy, is a major power in North and Central America, with its capital in New Orleans. Having won its independence from the United States of America in 1866, it is now the dominant power in the Caribbean.

In its current form, it controls the states in the south of what was once the United States, as well as large portions of what was once Mexico and almost all the islands of the Caribbean save for those ruled by the British Empire and the French Republic. It has also toppled and set up puppet state - collectively known as the Southern Confederacies - in Central America.

Slavery
"...its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition."

This statement by Alexander Stephens, the first Vice-President (1862 - 1868) and second President (1868 - 1874) of the Confederate States, remains central to the belief of the Confederacy in 1910 - a creed that upholds white supremacy and the institution of slavery for other races.

While the slave trade from Africa has been mostly cut off by British and French colonisation of West Africa, the expansion of the Confederacy has opened up new sources of slaves for both agricultural and industrial purposes. Some sources include:


 * The re-enslavement of peoples formerly emancipated in territories such as Cuba and Mexico, with the support of many formerly dispossessed slaveholders.
 * The capture and enslavement of local populations, including the Indians in the CSA, as well as native peoples such as the Maya and other local peoples in Central America.
 * Judicially imposed slavery; slavery was instituted as a sentence for several property crimes, such that non-whites convicted of such crimes could be liable to be 'assigned' as a slave, permanently, as their punishment.
 * Importation from Asia. Taking a page from how Mexico and Cuba dealt with their own supply of slave labour being cut off, the CSA extensively recruits indentured labour from China. While these Chinese labourers are not slaves in the traditional sense of being an owner's property, they are nonetheless held in debt bondage with their contracts being someone else's property. As such, they are de facto slaves.