History Literature / MaleRising

[[caption-width:25: No, the map is not joking. That's a real (fictional) 18th century African republic]]

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* BornIntoSlavery: Paulo the Elder and the Malê; most of the politicians in [[spoiler: post-Civil War South Carolina]]

* DirtyCommunists: Nixed with the advent of [[spoiler: Tolstoyist Russia]]. However, it is still far to early to tell if another country takes up the mantle...
* DraftDodging: NOT a wise thing to do in Tsarist Russia. Military officers would ''burn your entire village'' down if you do so (although joining the army would be an all-in-all death sentence as well). This ws one of the reasons why Tsarist Russia slid closer and closer into a...

--> [[spoiler: Anastasia Romanova]]: No one told us of the starvation. No one told us of the peasant families taken from their villages, the men to the front and the women and children to the factories and mines. No one told us of the massacres, the spies, the prisons and the dark basements. There was evil done in our name which will be on my soul forever, and we knew none of it.

*** That's actually the ''rest'' of Hungary. The Republic is the part where it's unhealthy ''not'' to be a socialist. [[spoiler: It doesn't last.]]
** The Abacarists believe this; Paulo the Elder argued that the world had too many kings. [[spoiler: He still was one, more or less, although he'd spit in your eye if you told him that.]]
* GreyAndGrayMorality: For the most part. There aren't any unambiguously bad guys in the Great War; even Tsarist Russia has good people on its side.

* LastStand: [[spoiler: Ibrahim Abacar during the Great War, in Saragarhi.]]

* MeleeATrois: After the Great War, secular nationalists, Catholic nationalists, leftists and unionists clash with each other and the British in Ireland.
** The [[spoiler: Hungarian]] civil war.

** Harriet Tubman is a [[spoiler: member of Congress from South Carolina]].
** Leon Trotsky is [[spoiler: a follower of Baha'ullah and fought for the Ottomans during the Great War.]]
** Tippu Tip is now [[spoiler: the elected sultan of the Omani Empire, which is ruled from Zanzibar and includes Anglo-Omani Tanganyika]].

** The Great Rising in [[spoiler: South Carolina]].
* WalkingTheEarth: Andras Weisz and his men definitely qualifies. Captured by the Ottomans and sent to the Upper Nile, he and his men escaped their captors and for ''three years traversed across war-torn Africa'' to return back to their native Hungary [[spoiler: only to find out that Austria-Hungary had been defeated and that their emperor was killed.]]

* DraftDodging: NOT a wise thing to do in Tsarist Russia. Military officers would ''burn your entire village'' down if you do so (although joining the army would be an all-in-all death sentence as well). This ws one of the reasons why Tsarist Russia slid closer
and closer into a...

* ManlyGay: Believe it or not, [[spoiler:Theodore Roosevelt]].

* Main/{{Dystopia}}: Tsarist Russia crept closer and closer to this during the Great War. Military officers would burn ''entire villages'' if the men fled the war draft.

* JustTheFirstCitizen: Paulo Abacar the Elder, albeit less dictatorial than most.

* LastStand: [[spoiler: Ibrahim Abacar during the Great War, in India.]]

** The Brazilian and German empires are forced to accept democratic characteristics due to either compromise and internal (as well as external) pressure.

--> Paulo Abacar.

** The Empire of Brazil and the Netherlands are forced to accept democratic characteristics due to either compromise and internal (as well as external) pressure.

* Test/{{Dystopia}}: Tsarist Russia crept closer and closer to this during the Great War. Military officers would burn ''entire villages'' if the men fled the war draft.

* Main/Dystopia: Tsarist Russia crept closer and closer to this during the Great War. Military officers would burn ''entire villages'' if the men fled the war draft.

* Dystopia: Tsarist Russia crept closer and closer to this during the Great War. Military officers would burn ''entire villages'' if the men fled the war draft.

--> Paulo Abacar

* WalkingTheEarth: Andras Weisz and his men definitely qualifies. Captured by the Ottomans and sent to the Upper Nile, he and his men escaped their captors and for ''three years traversed across war-torn Africa to return back to their native Hungary'' [[spoiler: only to find out that Austria-Hungary had been defeated and that their emperor was killed.]]

->'Knowledge without action is arrogance'
--> 'Paulo Abacar'

** The Republic of Hungary is ''not'' a very good place to be. Especially if you're a Jew or a socialist.

** It should be noted though that sometimes Jonathan's style of writing gives the impression of events being less bad as they are. [[TropesAreTools This is not a bad thing.]]

* HarrieTubman

* BornASlave: Paulo the Elder and the Malê; most of the politicians in [[spoiler: post-Civil War South Carolina]]

* EnemyMine: An example that could only happen in Malê Rising: Postwar France - while still an Empire - is a bit more socialist than before and has plans to turn it's colonial peoples into French citizens. A section of parliament disagreed and declared a new French State in southern France. Suddenly, there were socialists from Spain volunteering to fight for ''French Empire'' while Papal Legionnaires fought for the opposing French State.

* GoingNative: Although not yet confirmed in-story, there are signs that [[spoiler:Anastasia Romanov]] is heading this way.

** The empires of Britain, France, and the Ottomans have picked up characteristics of a federation with France being in the lead, even though it was one of the instigators of the Great War.

* WalkingTheEarth: Andras Weisz and his men definitely qualifies. Captured by the Ottomans and sent to the Upper Nile, he and his men escaped their captors and for ''four years traversed across war-torn Africa to return back to their native Hungary'' [[spoiler: only to find out that Austria-Hungary is now defeated and that their emperor's killed.]]

Malê Rising is an extended {{Alternate History}} story/essay by Jonathan Edelstein on {{Alternate History Dot Com}}. The premise is that the Malê Revolt of 1835, a rebellion of Muslim slaves in Bahia, Brazil, is slightly more successful; the revolt is still defeated, but the Malê survive to carry on guerrilla resistance in the mountains and eventually win passage to West Africa as an intact force. In 1840, they establish a republic in the lower Niger Valley based on the Islamic liberation theology of their charismatic leader. By 1900, shortly after a Great War between a British-North German-Ottoman alliance and a Franco-Austrian-Russian bloc, the influence of the Malê has made itself felt, subtly or otherwise, throughout the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas, as new ideologies form and conflicts arise that are inspired by or in reaction to them.

The timeline can be read [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=226788 here]].
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