RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

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

Actually, I thought it was Winston Churchill who proposed the South would
have had to free the slaves if the war had continued for six more months in
an article or book he wrote.


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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From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
Behalf Of Mark Chiddicks
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:37 PM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

Ah - thats clearer. I thought it a bit odd that I'd missed out on total
Southern manumission in my Foote books!

Be honest - was one of the motives for writing it like that to make for a
friendlier South that your typical Liberal American gamer would be more
comfortable to game in? To a Brit, without any residual guilt for slavery,
there's no problem with having a more realistic Confederacy and attitude to
black PCs & NPCs in the game, but I suspect that its the sort of thing
Americans
are programmed to avois mentioning!