Black people

Black people, also known as Africans, were a branch of the Human race who came mainly from Africa though daughter populations could also be found across the world including North America and Europe. They tended to have darker skin than other Humans.

Black people in World War
During the Race's Conquest Fleet's invasion of Tosev 3, the whole of Africa was conquered along with much of Asia, Latin America and Australia. Many Africans became subjects to the Race.

Black people in Southern Victory
Over the centuries, black slaves were taken from Africa and brought to the Americas including the United States and the Carribbean where they were used as unskilled and disposable manpower for menial work including labourers. The War of Secession from 1861-62 was fought between the United States which sought to abolish slavery and emancipate black people and the Confederate States which sought to preserve the institution of slavery and the oppression of blacks in America. The Confederate States won the war and were free to continue their practice of slavery.

Slavery was continued in the Confederate States through the Second Mexican War. In 1881, President James Longstreet promised to introduce and support a constitutional amendment banning slavery after the war's successful conclusion. As a result, Britain and France entered an alliance with the Confederate States and helped knock the United States out of the war.

While slaves were technically free, they were not able to become citizens since the Confederate States was founded on racist policies including the preservation of slavery. Though they composed a third of the population of the Confederate States, blacks suffered severe discrimination in society including doing the most menial and unskilled of work, being forced to carry passbooks and were segregated from the richer whites. However, citizenship was granted to a few blacks who had served with distinction in the Confederate Army.

These tensions between blacks and whites in the Deep South would continue into the twentieth century. Many blacks also became influenced by the socialism advocated by Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. During the Great War (1914-1918), the Confederate States joined the Entente which consisted of Britain, France and Russia while the United States along with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire formed the Central Powers.

With the Confederate's manpower concentrated against the United States, several blacks seized this as the chance to free themselves from their white oppressors. During the ensuing Red Rebellion (1915-16), black socialists revolted against the Confederate government and attempted to form several socialist republics in the South including the Congaree Socialist Republic. With the help of the US, the rebellion became a major problem, diverting precious Confederate manpower and resources, including units from the frontlines, to the crush the fledging republics.

By 1917, the CS as with most other members of the Entente had been weakened during the war and called for a ceasefire with the Central Powers. The Central Powers particularly the United States and Germany forced the Entente to pay harsh war reparations and to cede territory over. The United States would annex Kentucky and Sequoyah as well as the western portion of Texas (called the State of Houston by the US), northern Virginia to the Rappahannock, a strip of Arkansas added to Missouri, and a chunk of Sonora added to New Mexico. This resulted in longstanding animosity between the United States and Confederate States.

Only 10% of the 10 million blacks in the Confederacy were actually involved, but post-war, especially after the rise to power of the Freedom Party, blacks generally were blamed for the rebellion and the Confederacy's defeat during the Great War. The small amount of liberalization that the Blacks had gained post-War of Secession was lost after this rebellion.

The post-war hate toward blacks led to the rise of Jake Featherston's Freedom Party during the 1934 General Elections. The Freedom Party's policies included the "population reduction" of all blacks within the borders of the CS as part of the Black Holocaust. Several concentration camps including Camp Determination, Camp Undecided and Camp Humble were established to kill large amounts of people in a short period of time including gas chambers. Indeed, even as the Second Great War was going poorly for the C.S. by 1943, Featherston insisted on allocating precious resources to continue genocide.

As this process began many blacks including Cassius began to take arms once again, usually attacking in small raids and using guerrilla warfare. This fighting continued into the Second Great War. With the capture of Camp Determination by US Army general Abner Dowling in 1943 and the discovery of mass graves and other atrocities, more people became aware of the Black Holocaust. While much of the world including the US was indifferent to the plight of black people, knowledge of the Confederate's Holocaust led to stirrings of outrage.

Black people in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
As part of the racist ideologies of the Nazi-dominated Greater German Reich, blacks along with Jews, Slavs and Arabs were considered "untermensch". Following the Axis victory in Second World War, the Reich and its ally the Italian Empire launched a genocide against blacks in Africa as part of the Holocaust with the surviving populations being used as slave labor.

During the Third World War between the Reich and Japan against the United States (which had remained neutral in the Second World War), blacks and Jews in the United States were subjected to racial genocide. In the Aryan-dominated Union of South Africa which was an independent ally of the Reich, blacks along with other non-Aryans were exposed to "no more" than continuing Apartheid, rather than out-and-out genocide.

As of 2010, what little remained of the black population hoped that the reforms instituted by the fourth Fuhrer Heinz Buckliger to the German Reich would eventually reached them and other persecuted groups including the Jews, Slavs and Arabs.