as i said i found this timeline on deviantart and tweaked it slightly clearly none of you like, so i'll leave it there...
The Confederate government was controlled by the wealthy landowning class. These are the very people to whom a reopened slave trade, legal or otherwise, would pose an economic threat. The Confederate authorities would doubtless clamp down hard on any smuggling.
Besides, why would a smuggler do something as stupid as to try smuggling slaves? They would make no profit from it. There were more than enough slaves in the Confederacy to satisfy the demand (if anything, there were too many). It would be far easier, far cheaper, and far less problematic from a legal point of view to buy a slave within the Confederacy than to buy one from smugglers. And the heavy capital investment that ships, equipment, payments to African slave-traders, and everything else which would be involved would ensure that slaves smuggled in from Africa would have to be sold at a very high price in order for a profit to be made. They would never be able to compete with domestic slave traders.
as i said i found this timeline on deviantart and tweaked it slightly clearly none of you like, so i'll leave it there...
I don't take credit for this i slightly changed it in places as i have already said...
I don't take credit for this i slightly changed it in places as i have already said...
I don't take credit for this i slightly changed it in places as i have already said...
Were I you I'd be careful in using as a basis for a story someone else's setting, from a published work, if you had any hope of publishing it yourself.
I don't take credit for this i slightly changed it in places as i have already said...
So, not only did you steal this so-called "time line" from someone else, you apparently thought a couple of tweaks to a "time line" posted on a site known more for pornographic cartoons than historical speculation would somehow allow that "time line" to meet the standards found here.
Talk about compounding an error.![]()
You do realize that QuantumBranching is B_Munro, right? and that he has posted this map and scenario here?
And how was it received then? Pretty much like this retreaded version is being received now, right?
This "time line" meets Deviant Art's standards, whatever they may be, and fails to meet AH.com's standards.
And how was it received then? Pretty much like this retreaded version is being received now, right?
This "time line" meets Deviant Art's standards, whatever they may be, and fails to meet AH.com's standards.
Because it was put in the ASB settings thread, given that it involved Superheroes. All that happened here was removing the heroes from the mix.