RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

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

Heck - don't read too much into my criticisms, its a really good piece of work its just that this one thing jars a little. IMHO if the South wasn't certain to lose they wouldn't have done it. I do admit I haven't read "Back East - the South" so maybe theres more to it that I understood.

I know slavery etc isn't fun, but the black NPCs in the scenarios I've read seem to walk around as if slavery never happened at all, while the Chinese & Indians still get treated with disdain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed. [mailto:sosentinel@adelphia.net]
Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2002 11:15 a.m.
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves 


At 06:55 PM 7/31/2002, Mr. Mark Chiddicks wrote:
>The induction of a limited number of blacks into the Southern army in 
>return for freedom was very much a last resort, and not widespread (I 
>believe it was only in and around Richmond and Petersburg). In the world 
>of the Weird West the South is clearly not in such desperate straits, and 
>total manumission is far beyond what actually happened.

         Ahh, thank you, that's a bit more substantive.

         You are quite right to say things are not nearly so bad for the 
South in DL when the issue of manumission comes up, but there are other 
factors driving the issue: Tales o' Terror: 1877 and Back East: The South 
lay them out.
         To be sure, the Confederate surrender in real life forces us game 
writers to speculate on what happens past the spring of 1865, but as I 
said, I simply moved actual historical events by five months and left the 
actual consequences in place wherever possible. Everything else is based on 
30 years of scholarship on the topic and what's already laid out in the DL 
system.
         And that's about all I can say that hasn't already been said.

Deo Vindice,
Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.

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