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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
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2004 independent film produced as a Mockumentary and released by Hodcarrier Films, presented as a British documentary airing on Confederate television for the first time. It depicts an Alternate History where the Confederacy not only won The American Civil War but grew in power and conquered the North as well, and focuses on the socioeconomic ramifications of such a world. Aiding this telling are several false newsreels, film clips, and even some real historical paintings and pictures.Since it's supposedly airing on television, there are also faux commercial breaks advertising things like Confederate versions of American TV shows and extremely racist products that you'd think were made up. Incredibly, as revealed in the credits, the majority of them actually once existed during certain decades right here in Real Life. The CSA documentary is indicated to have been produced by the British Broadcasting Service, likely the in-universe version of the BBC. | |
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Creator Cameo: Director Kevin Willmott provides some voiceover readings of historical quotes. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The website has a timeline that gives some info that wasn't in the movie. | |
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The Exile | |
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The Exile: After his capture by Confederate forces, Lincoln is held in prison for two years before being exiled to Canada. He never returned to America and died in June of 1905, age 96. | |
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Propaganda Machine | |
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Propaganda Machine: John Ambrose Fauntroy V's "Family Values" program Family Values Program is a series of propaganda films to brainwash slaves, keep women submissive, and root out homosexuals. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Does John Ambrose Fauntroy V have black ancestry or not? The only answer viewers get is that his test results proved 'negative', but what negative means is not made clear. Judging by John's reaction though (he commits suicide before the test's even finished), he does indeed. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The CSA, if you're of any nationality apart from those considered white, and even then you can be accused of "passing". Just ask John Ambrose Fauntroy V. But if you're European-American, life in the CSA would most likely have been pretty swell ... assuming you were a full-blooded conservative heterosexual traditionalist male, that is. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: If Fauntroy was indeed passing, the clip played after the documentary reveals the test results-one of Fauntroy envisioning an America where everyone is proud of their Aryan blood and says, quote, "I want to reclaim that heritage"-comes off as this. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: The Confederates use some (carefully selected) quotes from The Bible to support their practices of slavery and racism. Depressingly true during the actual Antebellum period. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: The outcome is pretty obvious, but it's not made clear what becomes of Horace after revealing he and Fauntroy are relatives. He's not mentioned and Fauntory, who'd previously considered him family, is completely dismissive of him in a later press conference. On a larger scale, the film drops more than a few implications that the C.S.A.'s relative stability since the Civil War is finally beginning to crumble as the country suffers from cultural and economical stagnation, a possible future war with Canada, and the discovery that one of its most influential families possibly consists of black ancestry. The fact that the "documentary" was originally banned until the public pressure forced it to be released can be seen as a good implication of the changing opinions within the C.S.A. itself. | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Racism is bad, obviously. As well as slavery. | |
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Oppressive States of America | |
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Oppressive States of America: In the Confederacy (which now includes even the Northern states and most of the Americas after their conquests), the entire black population is enslaved, gender equality is non-existent, sexual orientation is not a free choice, and there is not much political freedom. | |
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Regional Riff | |
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Regional Riff: The Jew's harp theme heard in the "Runaway" commercial, as well as the African drum in the credits explaining the basis of the movie. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The CSA turns a cold shoulder to Nazi Germany after finding out they exterminate the Jews in concentration camps, rather than enslaving them. Jefferson Davis does spread a terrible system of oppression throughout the South, but he will not tolerate antisemitism, considering it was the Jewish Judah P. Benjamin in this timeline that was able to form an alliance with the British Empire and France. | |
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Government Agency of Fiction | |
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Government Agency of Fiction: The House Committee of Racial Identity, a thinly-veiled parody of the once very real House Un-American Activities Committee. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The John Brown Underground, a covert abolitionist movement that is mentioned repeatedly. By the film's present time they are operating out of Canada. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: The Confederacy only won because of assistance from Britain and France, which it only had because of Judah P. Benjamin's negotiations. Within his lifetime, the Confederacy passed the Christian Reform Act which made all non-Christian religions illegal, and resulted in the deportation of most of America's Jews (Jews like him). The 129th Fighting Bucks, a regiment of slaves, fought for the Confederacy against Japan in the Pacific Theater. Despite these slaves fighting valiantly, the CSA refused to deliver on promises of freedom. This is Truth in Television: in the tail end of the real-life Civil War, the Confederate Congress implemented a law allowing slaves to serve in the army but stipulated they would only be freed if their masters allowed them. Whether this would've actually worked or not can never be answered since the Confederacy collapsed just weeks later, before the law could be seriously implemented. The black community's positive attitude towards the war was based on real world developments in the Philippines war. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The documentary crew try to interview a group of slaves. One of them passes a note to the crew while shaking the director's hand, while the guard is focused on slapping their hand and saying no contact. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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The film shows a musical, A Northern Wind, representing the move towards presenting the Union as a Worthy Opponent / Hero Antagonist rather than evil. This mirrors how the Confederacy was presented in America by the 1930s, and the fictional musical is essentially the alternate universe equivalent to Gone with the Wind. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Casey Brown, a runaway slave, murdered her master's three white children. | |
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Expanded States of America | |
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Expanded States of America: The CSA goes on to annex the former Union states, expands to the Pacific, and conquers Latin America, turning them into a collection of satellite states. The expanded timeline also has them do the same with Kuwait, Afghanistan, and Iraq, seizing their oil supplies and attempting to convert the population to Christianity. | |
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Big Good | |
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Big Good: Canada and its various leaders have become the staunchest opponents of the Confederacy, refusing to extradite slaves, and becoming an asylum for the Confederacy's political opponents. | |
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May Contain Evil | |
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May Contain Evil: Contrari, a drug that supposedly "cures" drapetomania note (aka "the desire to run away"). In reality, it just dopes the slaves enough to be compliant. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Me and Fauntroy... we kin." | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
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Mirroring Factions: While dealing with Confederacy, the film actually highlights the racist undertones of modern society. Measures against the Chinese and Native Americans undertaken by Confederacy in the 19th century are disturbingly similar to those implemented by the US in real life. Post-World War II "anti-abolitionism" extremely resembles McCarthyism - what, with I Married an Abolitionist film being an obvious Shout-Out to (admittedly poorly-received and subsequently renamed) 1949 movie I Married a Communist. One scene in the film is a news clip about a football game, in which the Washington Indians are playing the New York Niggers. At the time of the film's release, the matching real-life New York team was called the Giants, but the Washington team was known as the Redskins. Controversy about that name would continue to grow until Washington decided to drop the Redskins name, and be called the Washington Football Team. Two years later, they chose a new, less controversial name - the Washington Commanders. A disclaimer at the end of the film also points out that the racist products advertised were real, and that slave imagery was still used to sell products such as Uncle Ben's rice and Aunt Jemima syrup. (Both products were rebranded following the George Floyd protests in 2020.) A tongue-in-cheek one: even in the CSA's conservative society obsessed with slaves, pornography still tops slave trade as the most profitable business. | |
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The Internet Is for Porn | |
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The Internet Is for Porn: Apparently, porn is still the top-selling item on the Internet, even with eBay being used as a 21st-Century slave auction block. | |
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The Empire | |
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The Empire: By the documentary's present day, the CSA appears to have successfully conquered the majority of Central and South America, in addition to possessing all territory the United States holds in real life. The CSA also conquered Japan, and according to extra materials, also controls much of Southeast Asia and, soon, all of the Middle East. By square mileage, this would make the CSA the largest (or second-largest) empire in human history. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The movie depicts the C.S.A. using the Confederate battle flag as its national flag after winning the Civil War, when it might make more sense for it to be using either the second or third national flag of the C.S.A.; the second had a pure white field and used the battle flag as its canton, while the third simply added a vertical red bar on the outside of the field. Because the public in real life largely forgot about the national flags of the Confederacy when the war was over, while the Battle Flag became the famous symbol of Southern and Confederate pride that it is today, the filmmakers may have decided that the Battle Flag flying over the White House or planted on the moon would be more recognizable and shocking to modern viewers. If anything, it's one of the least implausible counterfactuals presented by the film. The CSA is shown being friendly with Nazi Germany, but turning a cold shoulder to them when they learn that they plan to exterminate Europe's Jews rather than enslave them. While Jews were killed in pogroms (such as Kristallnacht) by the Nazis during the 1930s, the official policy was harassment and forceful emigration. They did not settle on a policy of industrial genocide until 1942.*And many details of the industrial genocide wouldn't have been widespread knowledge until 1945, after the war. In addition, the Nazis did use Jews and other minorities as slave labor during the war. One of the main plot points of the movie is that the CSA, after winning Gettysburg, went on to annex the Union completely; such an idea was considered far-fetched by Confederate leaders at the time, even if Gettysburg was won, since even with outside support the Confederacy had nowhere near the manpower or industrial power to fight a protracted war of attrition.note Even if Lee had won at Gettysburg, at the same time, Grant won at the strategically important town of Vicksburg, capturing the length of the Mississippi River and thus cutting the Confederacy in two. The whole point of the battle was twofold; first, to essentially give the Union a bloody nose and make them consider backing down and negotiating terms (not of surrender but of armistice), and secondly to demonstrate to the world that the CSA was capable of independence and hopefully win some foreign support to back up their position.note The second point, however, was somewhat flawed in itself since the rest of the industrialized world (at the time) had all but washed their hands of slavery, which was essentially the dealbreaker for any sort of alliance with the South. Great Britain was entertaining ideas of an alliance with the CSA, as they had great need of the Confederacy's cotton exports, but Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 snuffed out those considerations for good. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: One of Fauntroy's "educational films" features a housewife advising women to always defer to their husbands even when they drink and "give them a fatherly smack." | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty: The Fauntroy family has spent over a century contributing to a regime of racial and political oppression. When those same rules come back to bite them, Fauntroy V ends up sticking a gun in his mouth. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: We never find out what "negative" means in the context of a "Passing" DNA test. As a consequence, we never find out if the test conducted on the corpse of Fauntroy V confirms he had a black ancestor or not. Ultimately, whether or not it's true is irrelevant, as the point is that the Confederacy is so thoroughly entrenched in its racist ideals that even the suggestion of it drove him to suicide. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: The CSA scorns Hitler's final solution as a waste of "human livestock." | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: John Ambrose Fauntroy V's campaign ad shows him as a devoted father. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Horace blows the whistle on Fauntroy's black ancestry, knowing he'll be killed for it. | |
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Planet of Hats | |
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The CSA's obsession with slavery can seem like a Planet of Hats situation, but by the 1840s the "Confederacy" really was getting consumed by slavery as a lynchpin and focus of society; just as with the above examples, it's more an extrapolation than anything else. (The real question is whether or not it would've gone quite that far nationally since even in the 1840s some Southerners were beginning to express dismay at the direction their society was taking, but by the Civil War more reactionary Southerners were embracing anti-republican and anti-democratic ideas like monarchism, authoritarian rejection of the Enlightenment, and outright enshrinement of Christianity as an official state religion, as the government tried to retain a semblance of control in the face of the deteriorating war effort.) | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: John Ambrose Fauntroy V, after he's accused of having a trace of black ancestry. The film never makes it clear whether negative means "negative white" or "negative black". Also, earlier in the film, the Newsbreak segment happened to mention common errors in DNA tests conducted by the Department of Racial Identity which could lead citizens to question who they really are. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The end of the film reveals that a number of the products displayed during the fake commercials actually existed, and that slave imagery in marketing was still in use at the time of the film's release, specifically noting Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima - though those two examples were specifically removed in 2020. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: The CSA's enslaved its black and Asian populations, is highly sexist, and the Jews have either fled the country or been forced into what are essentially ghettos in a reservation on Long Island. | |
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Noble Demon | |
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Noble Demon: After the Confederacy won the Civil War, Robert E. Lee called for the emancipation of the slaves and almost got it through Congress. John Ambrose Fauntroy prevented Lee's efforts from coming to fruition. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Because the South won the war, Lincoln is not assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, but, after a stint in prison, is exiled to Canada and lives well into his nineties, embittered that his lack of resolve allowed the C.S.A. to win the war in the end. | |
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Les Collaborateurs | |
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Les Collaborateurs: Jefferson Davis' slave, Popsy, gave him the idea of encouraging Northerners to own slaves. The slave trade was brought back during the Great Depression with the help of African heads of state. Patricia Johnson gets very...quiet when talking about the latter. | |
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Side Effects Include... | |
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Side Effects Include...: Textbook example with the Contrari commercial, whose side effects include "vomiting, shortness of breath, nausea, blurred vision, liver and kidney problems, constipation, anal bleeding, [and] heart attack in old uncles". | |
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Politically Correct History | |
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Politically Correct History: Played with. After the Civil War, there's an attempt to make the abolition movement, and the North, look misguided but noble in popular culture to encourage reconciliation between Northern and Southern whites. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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This is Truth in Television: in the tail end of the real-life Civil War, the Confederate Congress implemented a law allowing slaves to serve in the army but stipulated they would only be freed if their masters allowed them. Whether this would've actually worked or not can never be answered since the Confederacy collapsed just weeks later, before the law could be seriously implemented. The black community's positive attitude towards the war was based on real world developments in the Philippines war. | |
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Space Cold War | |
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Space Cold War: One exists between the abolitionist and free Canada versus the slavery happy Confederate America. A pretty justified trope in this timeline because even though the Confederates control the American north, Canada has recieved so many immigrants, skilled labor, intellectuals and refugees to the point where it has become a cultural, political and even military power. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: The film shows how racism is a horrible foundation on which to build society. While the Confederate States survives into the 21st century, it has become a pariah state with a vapid culture and a declining economy. Canada, a nation that embraces diversity and human capital, manages to prosper and is even outstripping the Confederate States, despite having far less population and land. Even the beneficiaries of that racist system are done when they themselves are accused of carrying "Negro" blood, regardless of whether this claim is true. | |
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Swapped Roles | |
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Swapped Roles: For contemporary audiences, seeing the Democrat Party as the one in favor of slavery and war while the Republican Party advocate abolition is this. Truth in Television, as in the mid-19th Century, the Democrats were the conservative party and Republicans were radical progressives. Both parties switched ideologies over the course of several decades, with the change being most pronounced in the 1960s with the passage of the Civil Rights Act. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: The Fauntroy family. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The documentary, especially in its coverage of the 19th Century, is a subtle parody of Ken Burns' The Civil War. Two of the prominent talking heads in CSA are, likewise, parodies of two historians interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary: Sherman Hoyle is a parody of Shelby Foote, and Patricia Johnson is a parody of Barbara Fields. | |
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Justified Trope | |
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Of course, this is a Justified Trope, since the reasoning for the caricaturization isn't to show the most likely scenario, but the worst-case scenario, as demonstrated by Sherman Hoyle's quote, which is a send-up of a similarly phrased quote by historian Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' The Civil War: | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: The Confederacy won the Civil War because Britain and France intervened on their behalf. Both of those nations would go on to become bitter rivals with The CSA to the point of declaring a world embargo against them. In other words, Britain and France created their worst enemy. | |
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Retraux | |
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Retraux: Many segments are altered to look like old footage dating to the earliest days of film. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: After the passing of the Christian Reform Act of 1895, the consensus is that Jews will be expelled from the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, even laying on his deathbed, pleads with congress to repeal the act and speaks in favor of Jews like Judah P. Benjamin who supported the Confederacy and worked to help guarantee its future. After his death, the decision is made to create a reservation for a small number of Jews on Long Island. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Many of the modern-day Confederate-Americans come off this way. They seem perfectly pleasant... or at least as pleasant as someone who subscribes to white supremacy can possibly be. By the end of the documentary, however, it seems that the C.S.A. itself may be nearing a Heel–Face Turn as public opinions begin to become divided on the topic of slavery and white supremacy, with many citizens beginning to face a national identity crisis, especially when it comes to light that the Fauntroy family may not be as purely white as they claim. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: The Fauntroy family are patrician slaveholders who have pushed the Confederate States into an authoritarian and racist direction. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: Does Fauntroy secretly have distant Black ancestry? | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Each John Ambrose Fauntroy, as they head a family dynasty that's considered "American royalty" and are responsible for all the political and cultural direction undertaken by the Confederacy. For instance, it was the influence of the first John Ambrose Fauntroy that resulted in the North embracing slavery. | |
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Speculative Documentary | |
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Speculative Documentary: A fictional documentary covering the Confederate States of America following a southern victory in the American Civil War. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
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Starting in the 1950s, abolitionism is seen as a serious threat to the sanctity of Confederate society. Sound familiar? Also, the paranoia leading to the creation of propaganda horror films such as I Married an Abolitionist, a reference to the film I Married a Communist. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: A commercial played during the movie advises people to call a hotline if they suspect someone is 'passing' which is the crux of the accusations against Fauntroy. Likewise, the news report literally shows some footage from the in universe documentary (namely, the JBU agent known as 'Big Sam' leading Lindsay to Horace) and makes a vague reference to a scandal before the chapter that covers that scandal in the documentary. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The film seesaws between jokey segments and more serious bits dealing with race. | |
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Happiness in Slavery | |
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Happiness in Slavery: How slaves are depicted in CSA productions. In (the film's) reality, not so much. | |
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No Woman's Land | |
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No Woman's Land: Although the main focus is on racism and slavery, it's briefly touched on that the 19th Amendment didn't happen, so women never got the vote and are still treated like second-class citizens. An In-Universe propaganda film actively encourages domestic violence. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: A definite Level IV on the Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility. The creator openly admits that it fails as a work of alternate history, because his goal was to make a point about modern American race relations. Judah P. Benjamin's earnest diplomacy convinced Britain to support the Confederacy, France following their lead. Combined with Confederate victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, this won them not just their independence but political supremacy over the states of the North. The rise of the Confederacy also came at a crucial time in America's cultural history, where it had otherwise begun to more openly embrace cultural influences from other races and nations, especially African influences, which would go on to shape American culture for the next few decades; instead, with the C.S.A. pretty much banning or suppressing anything that didn't ascribe to their "white Christian American" values, the nation's culture stagnated, with such influences instead being embraced by Canada, which all but made Canada itself into the cultural America of the timeline while the C.S.A. struggles to have a national identity of its own. The Fauntroy family dynasty within the C.S.A. had a marked impact on the development of the nation post-war, essentially being the driving force behind the Confederate States doubling down on racism and slavery instead of embracing more progressive views like the rest of the world. | |
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Christianity Is Catholic | |
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Christianity is Catholic: It's actually specifically noted that there was much debate before Catholicism was declared Christian, allowing them to stay in the fiercely Protestant CSA. | |
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Sub-Par Supremacist | |
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Sub-Par Supremacist: For white supremacists, the Confederate powers-that-be are culturally inept (since much of the vim and vigor we get in real-world American culture comes from black and/or foreign influences), and the country they run is both economically and politically inferior to Canada, which actively embraces racial and ethnic diversity. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Aside from the extreme racism and the owning of people as property, the CSA is also incredibly misogynistic, with women not being allowed to vote and domestic violence being encouraged by In-Universe propaganda. | |
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Red Scare | |
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Red Scare: The abolitionist movement fills this role in the 1950s: it emerges from Canada and creates its own version of the "Weather Underground", and ends with the construction of a wall dividing the CSA and Canada. Averted with actual Communists, which is ironic considering how the USSR used America's unequal treatment of blacks and women for anti-American propaganda purposes in the pre- and especially post-World War II eras. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: The CSA has been able to continue chattel slavery into the 21st Century, stifling any opposition. However, America has been turned into a giant pariah state, with seemingly every major country (except South Africa) enacting sanctions against it. Its oppressive "morality" laws have driven great artists into Canada, while the CSA can only produce vapid government propaganda. And at the end of the film, it's stated that the continued maintenance of slavery is damaging the country's economy. | |
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Playing with Syringes | |
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Playing with Syringes: A commercial for the Cartwright Institute promises that anyone who doesn't have the grades for medical school, or the patience for a nursing program, can enroll, and in several months will be qualified to diagnose and treat drapetomania (freedom sickness), count and track slaves, become a specialist in slave breeding, and treat "rascality" and other "negro peculiarities." | |
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Content Warnings | |
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Content Warnings: Because CSA (the in-universe documentary) is so controversial from the Confederate perspective, Channel 6 puts up this Viewer Discretion Advised disclaimer: | |
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Alternate History Wank | |
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Alternate History Wank: An unusual case. Although the Confederacy's presented in a strong negative light, it still manages to become a dominant world power and conquers one of the largest empires in human history, capturing most of Central America and the entire continent of South America with far less effort and expenditure than would realistically be expected. Canada becomes to this universe what the USA is to the real one — culturally and economically dominant on the world stage, and rapidly outstripping the Confederacy militarily as well, to the point that they pretty much ideologically become more American than the C.S.A. itself. As mentioned in Historical Villain Upgrade, this version of the C.S.A. paints a picture of an entire nation obsessed with the idea of slavery and white supremacy, even after the war. While white supremacy was a very common sentiment even after the war, in fact, especially after the war, many historians theorize that slavery was unlikely to last much longer in the South, between political pressure from other nationsnote To the point that one of the main reasons why other countries didn't throw their lot in with the South was because they'd already washed their hands of slavery and the Industrial Revolution introducing new, cheaper and much less labor-intensive methods of agriculture, of which the Confederacy's economy primarily survived upon. note In-universe, it is acknowledged that slavery is taking a toll on the Confederate economy and that slavery is maintained for purely ideological reasons. The overall prevalence of slavery is a bit over-estimated—in the film, it makes keeping slaves seem like something that was so common that practically every domestic household had at least one, but in reality, buying and keeping a slave in those times was a highly expensive and resource-intensive endeavor, let alone in the numbers to run an entire plantation. The truth of the matter is that slavery was almost exclusively carried out by the wealthy elite and "planter" classes in the C.S.A., who were almost unanimously in support of the sordid practice, while the lower classes were generally more divided on the issue, to the point that many poor families actually supported the Union (and believed that a Civil War would be "a War for the rich, fought by the poor") and there was discussion of several regions breaking away from the Confederacy when the secessions began. As it stands, the only region to actually make good on these discussions was West Virginia, which would later become a major border state during the war proper. Of course, part of this can be justified by the fact that the "modern" C.S.A. has promoted slavekeeping to the point that is a domestic commodity, and that, given the changing opinions even within their own country, they would do whatever they could to make it seem like something vital and ubiquitous that the citizens just cannot do without, instead of, say, a luxury only for the elite that can (and should) be discarded. | |
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Shocking Defeat Legacy | |
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Shocking Defeat Legacy: The point of divergence in this timeline is the Battle of Gettysburg, where the Confederates are backed up by British and French troops which then rout the Union. The war ends in 1864, a full year early. | |
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Illegal Religion | |
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Illegal Religion: The Christian Reform Act of 1895 outlaws any religion not based on Christianity. After a lot of debate, the Roman Catholic Church is classified as Christian. Originally, Judaism is also outlawed, but Jefferson Davis' pleading allows for a small number of Jews to live on a reservation on Long Island. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The Confederates did this to Northern cities such as Boston and New York. Witnessing this led Robert E. Lee to the conclusion that War Is Hell. | |
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Culture Police | |
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Culture Police: The repression of black music and those inspired by such, due to Confederate culture laws, end up making American culture stupid and boring, while Canada benefits as mentioned above. | |
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Patriot in Exile | |
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Patriot in Exile: Near the start of the movie, it's stated that, after the Confederacy won the Civil War, Abe Lincoln was arrested for war crimes and exiled to Canada as punishment. In his final moments, Lincoln states that he laments his failure to free the slaves, and states that he hopes that it'll happen in America one day. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: Runaways and Leave It to Beulah, among others. The latter is based on the real show Beulah and actual clips are shown from it. However, the credits fail to mention it at all in its rundown of what was legit. | |
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I Lied | |
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The 129th Fighting Bucks, a regiment of slaves, fought for the Confederacy against Japan in the Pacific Theater. Despite these slaves fighting valiantly, the CSA refused to deliver on promises of freedom. This is Truth in Television: in the tail end of the real-life Civil War, the Confederate Congress implemented a law allowing slaves to serve in the army but stipulated they would only be freed if their masters allowed them. Whether this would've actually worked or not can never be answered since the Confederacy collapsed just weeks later, before the law could be seriously implemented. The black community's positive attitude towards the war was based on real world developments in the Philippines war. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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As President of the Confederacy, John F. Kennedy tried to emancipate the slaves. He was killed, and his momentum died with him. | |
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Evil Reactionary | |
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Evil Reactionary: The Confederate States, and especially the Fauntroy family, is a rabidly racist, sexist, and imperialist state. | |
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Assimilation Academy | |
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The government program in C.S.A. that sought to take the "Native out of the Native" by taking young indigenous children from their families and putting them in boarding schools that sought to make them forget their cultural roots, customs, and language were actually done by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Australia well into the 20th century. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
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In Spite of a Nail: Done deliberately to make satirical parallels with actual history. The opening quote by George Bernard Shaw (subtly) lampshades this. On the DVD Commentary, the creators note this trope with the Indian Wars. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The same kind of racism that the Fauntroy family has harnessed and applauded for centuries ultimately killed John Ambrose Fauntroy V's chances at the Presidency when he can't overcome allegations of black ancestry. More specifically, him personally intervening to get Lindsey an interview with some slaves directly led to the JBU and Horace letting her know about Fauntroy's possible black ancestry, through a clandestine note handed to her by a slave. One wonders if knowing he brought about his own downfall contributed to his suicide. In general, the Confederates may have won the civil war, at the cost of America now being a pariah state with untold millions of refugees and skilled labor heading to Canada. The racism of the Confederates has pretty much made Canada the New World spot for immigrants to the point where Canada is now the North American hegemon, so while the Confederates are still somewhat of a power, it's nothing compared to the Union victory America of our timeline. | |
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Western Terrorists | |
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Western Terrorists: The John Brown Underground, or the JBU, a splinter group of the NAACP that wages a violent campaign of terror attacks against the Confederate States, declaring it "A War Against Slavery." They even manage to assassinate Fauntroy IV, which motivates his son's desires for a potential war against Canada. | |
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Eagleland Osmosis | |
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Eagleland Osmosis: Averted as, thanks to the CSA's cultural crackdown over any and every influence that isn't "pure white", American culture never evolves beyond "extensions of government propaganda". Imagine an America with no jazz, blues, soul, or rock 'n' roll. Heinous.note Mind you, "non-white cultural influences" isn't strictly limited to African influence either; the lynchpin of America's diversion into the alternate timeline occurred at some of the most, if not the most culturally important years in the nation's history, as it was beginning to shake off the final coat of "former British colony" and become the "Land of Opportunity" that it would be known as in the early 20th century which ultimately resulted in its "Great American Melting Pot" culture—take that away, and you're left with a country whose identity is determined solely by the people in charge, with none of the individualism and self-reliance values that defined the America we know today. | |
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Doctor von Turncoat | |
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Doctor von Turncoat: When the European theater of World War II ended, the C.S.A. enacted "Operation Aryan Angel," with the aim of bringing as many former Nazi scientists over to the C.S.A. as possible and using their technical know-how to expand their empire. | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: It's subtle, but there. The film ends with anti-slavery movements defeated and slavery still prevalent in the C.S.A, but there is heavily implications that, between the economic stagnation, impending war with Canada, and the One Drop scandal which led to the Fauntroy family patriarch eating his gun, many C.S.A citizens are beginning to question the authenticity of the whole program, and the ideas of systemic oppression and enslavement of non-whites as a whole, with the fact that the establishment is so vigorously defending slavery in the C.S.A being a fairly heavy hint that the people are not so casually overlooking the issue any more. As for the rest of the world, equality is still celebrated widely, in part actually due to the C.S.A.'s history making the evils of racism and slavery so apparent, and Canada has not only prospered as an asylum of liberty, but has begun to take America's place as the cultural center of the Americas. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and thousands of other abolitionists pack-up and leave for Canada after Jefferson Davis spreads slavery nationwide. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: John Ambrose Fauntroy I is repeatedly described as John Ambrose Fauntroy V's "great-grandfather." This is one generation off; he is his great-great-grandfather. Unless there were two John Ambrose Fauntroys in a single generation somehowsuch ashis grandfather's brother was John Ambrose Fauntroy II and his father's cousin was the third, and then his father was named after this distant relation as the fourth, as some upper crust political families actually do follow such a numbering convention. | |
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Public Execution | |
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Public Execution: The Confederate News cheerfully announces the live execution of a slave who had betrayed his master. | |
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Futureshadowing | |
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Futureshadowing: The opening of the film describes the documentary as controversial and responsible for a national scandal, and thus was banned from the Confederacy for two years before public demand pressured Confederate Television to release it uncensored. Said controversy was the reveal that the influential Fauntroy family has black ancestry, which lead to John Ambrose Fauntroy V losing the 2004 election and later blowing his brains out. | |
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The Evils of Free Will | |
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The Evils of Free Will: Dr. Samuel Cartwright is credited with discovering drapetomania, the "freedom illness". To treat such a malady in the modern day CSA, the Cartwright Institute promises to train its students to diagnose and treat "drapetomania", and Contrari is marketed to slave owners whose slaves have been diagnosed with the disease. Most likely, Contrari drugs the victim into thinking they are happy being slaves, and the ending montage reveals that Samuel Cartwright was a real person who coined up the term drapetomania as another way to justify slavery. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: "My great-grandfather did not have sexual relations with that woman!" "Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?" A Confederate leader demanding reparations for slavery... in the form of Canada paying the Confederacy for all of the labor that had been lost due to slaves escaping to Canada. NAACP now stands for National Association for the Advancement of Chattel People. There are also deliberate references to actual United States history, albeit with the Confederacy's actions being far more villainous. For instance, the Confederacy engaged in a war of conquest against South America. While this detail was based on an actual ambition of the Confederacy, the idea of that war being a uniter of America following the division of the Civil War is equally true of the actual Spanish-American War. The idea of Lincoln escaping in blackface and being caught seems to be just a joke, but it's a reference/reversal of a Northern urban legend in actual history that claimed Jefferson Davis had tried to escape dressed as a woman. The film shows a musical, A Northern Wind, representing the move towards presenting the Union as a Worthy Opponent / Hero Antagonist rather than evil. This mirrors how the Confederacy was presented in America by the 1930s, and the fictional musical is essentially the alternate universe equivalent to Gone with the Wind. Project "Aryan Angel", where the CSA rescued hundreds of Nazi scientists in return for their services. Yes, this happened in real life, as "Operation Paperclip". The CSA conquers Japan using the Atomic Bomb. The fact that the first name of a pro-Confederacy historian is Sherman. Characterization of interracial relations in the CS as "separate and unequal". Apparently, the Confederacy victory changed Britain's major broadcaster from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) to the BBS (British Broadcasting Service). Starting in the 1950s, abolitionism is seen as a serious threat to the sanctity of Confederate society. Sound familiar? Also, the paranoia leading to the creation of propaganda horror films such as I Married an Abolitionist, a reference to the film I Married a Communist. The ongoing conflict with Canada over their unwillingness to repatriate former slaves or extradite members of the JBU leads to the Confederate States constructing a wall across the Canadian border known as the Cotton Curtain. | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Strange as it may seem, the depiction of the Confederacy is practically a caricature of the C.S.A.. Among other things, the Confederacy is so gung-ho about slavery that their first act after annexing the former Union is to enslave all free blacks, as opposed to slavery being one of the biggest, but not sole reason behind it. The money quote is at the very end: Of course, this is a Justified Trope, since the reasoning for the caricaturization isn't to show the most likely scenario, but the worst-case scenario, as demonstrated by Sherman Hoyle's quote, which is a send-up of a similarly phrased quote by historian Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' The Civil War: | |
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Karmic Jackpot | |
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Karmic Jackpot: Canada makes the fateful decision of refusing to surrender its fugitive American slaves, and pays the price of hostile relations with the CSA. However, this also allows Canada to become the place to be for all the great popular artists who otherwise would have been American, making Canada the dominant cultural center of the world with enough revenue from that to build its own military power to defend itself. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The "documentary" is produced by the BBS (British Broadcasting Service), an obvious take on this world's BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: Given the racial attitudes, white actors in blackface remain a common sight in the CSA (although black actors still exist to some degree). Also, Lincoln apparently donned blackface when on the run. | |
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Burger Fool | |
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Burger Fool: Coon Chicken Inn, the CSA's version of KFC (and, like other products in the film, an actual place). | |
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Last Stand | |
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Last Stand: After the First Kansas Volunteers refused to surrender, Confederate soldiers under Nathan Bedford Forrest killed all of them as well as their wives and children. A soldier named Moses Butler was left alive to serve as a warning. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: After the Civil War, the Confederacy tried to have Canada turn over all of the escaped slaves. Just before the Canadian Parliament voted, Frederick Douglass gave an impassioned speech that managed to sway them. | |
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Sympathy for the Hero | |
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Sympathy for the Hero: Sherman Hoyle, while still dismissive of Abraham Lincoln, does somewhat pity how he was exiled and was soon forgotten by history. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Occasionally, the Confederacy (or significant members of its leadership) do something good (or at least less horrible). When the Civil War is over, Robert E. Lee calls for emancipation of the slaves. It fails. On his deathbed, Jefferson Davis begged Congress to repeal The Christian Reform Act (which would have resulted in the deportation of American's Jewish Population). It is because of this that a small number of Jews were allowed to remain in the CSA (on a Reservation in Long Island). As President of the Confederacy, John F. Kennedy tried to emancipate the slaves. He was killed, and his momentum died with him. | |
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DVD Commentary | |
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On the DVD Commentary, the creators note this trope with the Indian Wars. | |
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