Sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find it via a search. I'm interested in what the Confederate States plans were for their future if they had won, particularly if they had an idea for reconciliation with the north and did they feel their version of government with slavery a key aspect to be sustainable?
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the long term plans called for the establishment of southern hegemony over the gulf of mexico(particularly Cuba) to counter northern expansion in the west and increased industrialization to free from dependence on imported goods while maintaining slave based agriculture
in reality especially in the short term they would have likely had serious trouble organizing an effective government and paying off debts the reading i have done on the southern government paints the picture that it would have become a heavily devolved confederation style government
they viewed slavery as absolutely sustainable which ins't necessarily wrong as long as you can stomach it morally slavery is a very fluid institution capable of eventually adapting to technological change certain thinkers postulated that slaves would evolve into a permanent nonvoting lower class more akin to wage slaves than absolute chattel slavery