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The Second Exodus
by Mable L. SmithCommonwealth Historian, Department of Lived Sovereignty — Port Jubilee, Year 148 A.F. I. Prologue — The Shattering The Fracture did not arrive as thunder.It came as a closing of doors. When the Union bargained away Reconstruction, it traded the lives of millions for one more quiet transfer of power. The Compromise of…
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On the Lines of Division: Why the Continent Broke as It Did
Commonwealth Department of Lived Sovereignty, Year 148 A.F.by Mable L. Smith What we call the Fracture did not happen all at once.The collapse of the old United States was less an explosion than a slow, methodical undoing—each region tugging on the thread of its own survival until the Union unraveled in their hands. By the…
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On Reconstruction: The Promise Before the Fall
Filed by Mable L. Smith, Commonwealth Department of Lived Sovereignty, Year 148 A.F. They called it Reconstruction — as if a nation could be rebuilt like a house after a fire.But the fire had burned through people, not timbers, and the foundation that remained was already cracked. Between 1865 and 1877, the United States tried…
A History of the Fracture 