RE: [DL] Wolverine (not OT)

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

Mr. Chiddicks, allow me to introduce Mr. McGlothlin...


:)



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..."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
Behalf Of Mark Chiddicks
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:48 PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Wolverine (not OT)

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.