RE: [DL] Wolverine (not OT)

["Mark Chiddicks" <Mark.Chiddicks@descisys.com>]

I must say the least convincing element of the Deadlands World is the Confederate Manumission Law. I know it makes the survival of the CSA to 1876 much more credible, since foreign aid would never have come without it, but its really hard to swallow the Confederacy I know deciding to do that. I am certain that some of the Generals - Forrest most obviously would have rebelled against it - indeed a coup could well have followed.

I know it was suggested at the time, but it was never seriously considered. The Southern States seceded because they knew their economies couldn't function without slavery - this was doubly true after 4 years of exhausting war which killed the cream of Southern Manhood. I just can't see how a South without slaves could have fed and clothed itself in 1865/6.

Is this just a bit of PC creeping into the game world? Maybe Pinnacle didn't want to be seen to be suggesting players play characters from slaveholding nation, I do hope this wasn't the motive.

I am unpleasantly remided of Sid Meier's Colonisation, a pretty good computer game marred by the fact that Microprose saw fit to simulate the colonisation of America without black slavery but WITH the extermination of the native population. What message was this meant to send? Slavery never happened? Slavery is wrong but stealing the land and gold of the indigenous population is OK ? Slavery and its aftermath seems to be to be skirted around throughout the Deadlands material - black characters never seem to have any problems functioning in society at all (while racism towards Indians and Chinese is honestly handled), when the truth is that blacks had a worse lot in the postwar South than they did when they were slaves.

-----Original Message-----
From: Clint Black [mailto:cblack@ohtinc.com]
Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 9:33 a.m.
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Wolverine (not OT)



> - Superdude
> - The Thang
> - Captain Confederate (like Captain America, but in the Klan)


Actually, sir, the second Captain Confederacy was a black woman.


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."



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