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Re: [DL] Wolverine (not OT)
More on this later. . .
Suffice it to say that it is not as far-fetched as you might believe, or
had been led to believe by the approved school cirriculum history books.
And Pinnacle addresses this rather frankly in one of their books. Racism,
bigotry, slavery, wife-beating, religious intolerance, and all of the
other social ills which were prevalent at the time just. aren't. fun.
If you wish to explore that aspect of the West in your games, great. Me,
I want my character to be standing on main street with his back to the sun
facing down Black Bart.
Something that also never happened in the "real" West. But it's a lot
more fun to play through.
> Mr. Chiddicks, allow me to introduce Mr. McGlothlin...
>
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> :)
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>
>
> 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.
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