The Great American War is a misnomer. It actually was a series of low-intensity conflicts between the Confederate States of America and Grand Columbia an alliance of South American pro-labor guild regimes led by Venezuela and Brazil. It was sparked by the raid on the slaveship CSS CUBA, a national symbol. This attack, it was later discovered, was designed to punish the CS fpr trying to spread slavery and anti-labor moves into Grand Columbia the alliance saw a war as the means to a greater good, the independence, prosperity and stability of Latin American Labor Guilds Fred Douglass is seen as a symbolic hero-figure in most of South America. A strange diplomatic environment, not of peace or hatred, but of mutual profitmaking for all involved evolved afterward.