RE: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 11:49 AM 8/1/2002 +1200, you wrote:
 >Thats called the 'argument from authority' - maybe Churchill said it, that
 >doesn't mean he was right. After all, the man was a Tory, so he certainly
 >got SOME things wrong!

 >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!


I must say, you are truly proving your value in a scholarly debate. . .






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