RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

["Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>]

At 07:36 PM 7/31/2002, Mr. Mark Chiddicks  wrote:
>Ah - thats clearer. I thought it a bit odd that I'd missed out on total 
>Southern manumission in my Foote books!

         LOL! That's one of the alternate history bits that's in Back East: 
The South.
         BTW, if you do purchase that book at some point, I would be most 
gratified to know what you thought of it, good sir.

>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?

         Shane established Southern manumission in the main DL book, so 
that's really a question only he can answer. I'm just a hired gun who got 
paid to try and explain it all.;-)

>  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!

         I can only speak to the game industry, but there's certainly an 
element of what you speak of present there. FASA/FanPRO, for instance, 
seems to be going out of its way to include the South in its games shorn of 
anything vaguely realistic, IMHO.
         Thanks for the posts, good sir!


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

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