I LOOOOOVED at the very end, where we see Hilde pull out a shotgun of her own! Apparently,
this viewer didn't. Reminds me of a viewer who complained that Hilde wasn't "heroic" enough. I guess running for your life (twice!) isn't heroic enough - you're supposed to be able to grab a gun and fire at will,
even if you've never held one before in your life.
My take? Django and Hilde make it up north, maybe all the way up to Canada, and start a family. Years later, Django surprises his wife by joining the Union Army, feeling strongly for the freedom of all men (not just men with German sponsors). Hilde holds down the fort at home, teaching the local women how to shoot and other forms of self-defense, as well as raising their son, King S. Freeman. Since it is strongly suggested that Hilde is literate - or she certainly would've been once Django taught her to read (as Schultz taught him), I think she would become a schoolteacher as well. Yes, I've thought about this waaaay too hard.
So what would have happened? Word would quickly spread that there had been a major slave revolt in Candieland, the fourth largest plantation in Mississippi.
Doubtful. First off, the now free slaves wouldn't have exactly run around telling everybody that Candieland was no more. Second, I believe Candieland was what...75 miles all around or something like that? There was nobody nearby, and nobody was going to be nearby for quite a while. Third, nobody was going to let that kind of thing become common knowledge, black or white. My Texas "history" textbook goes out of its way to minimize slavery in this state, even going as far as to say that there were no slave rebellions or uprisings in north Texas. However, a trip to the Old Red Courthouse museum prominently features a display about a slave uprising is what is modern day Dallas County. But since that suggests that slaves 1) had a reason to revolt and 2) had the mental capacity to do so, the textbooks keep mum about it. The same would've happened back then, I'm sure.