Article snippet: Posted at 6:54 pm on August 2, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Amazon is developing an alternate history series called Black America based on the premise that following the Civil War, freed slaves were given their own states as reparations. Amazon is building on the success it had with its other alternate history series The Man in the High Castle which was set in a world where the Axis Powers had won World War II and America is occupied by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. HBO recently announced development of a controversial new series Confederate which will tell a story completely opposite to that of Black America. Despite the backlash against it, I expect the intent of Confederate is not to condone or minimize slavery. The opposite is probably true. However, the supposition that slavery could remain an institution until modern times is a rather dubious premise. The idea that slavery could exist in a modern America (Confederacy or not) is rather ludicrous. It implies no cultural evolution occurring over more than a century. Whereas Black America‘s alternate history asks “what if?” about one historical moment, Confederate‘s requires you to suspend disbelief about every moment between the Civil War and today. It’s a stretch to say the least. Of the two series, Black America seems like the far more plausible premise, but it could squander that advantage if its creators make it politically preachy—something that could be entertaining and thought provoking might become a nic... Link to the full article to read more