georgia

Is there any way that once things start looking bad for the confeadrcy that Georgia counter secedes and declares rupublic of Georgia and wile it doesn't get outright annexed it becomes a client state along the lines of pre Castro Cuba.

With the Black Sea lowering travel times, and the center of the later empire being Constantinople, could the Romans have conquered the Caucasus region for a long period of time and Romanized the area?

What if Oglethorpe's desire to prevent slavery from spreading to Georgia was respected by later governors (or Oglethorpe returned to governorship after the War of Jenkin's Ear), and slavery remained outlawed in Georgia indefinitely?