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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:54:19 GMT
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In lugnet.western, John Rudy and others write:
> > As far as the *need* for slaves in a American Civil War theme, I don't see
> > where there is a need for any. Many historians will tell you that the
> > slavery issue was a very minor point in the entire affair and was only
> > brought up by Lincoln as a reason to explain the war.
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> Don't forget to anger the south, the slaves
> there were possessions. (SP?) Slavery and the
> ultimate freeing of the slaves were just minor
> downfalls of the south. I encourage anyone
> who doesn't support the lego/Civil war issue
> because of racial issues to sit down with
> one of the millions of internationally
> published books on the subject and read
> about the contriuting factors of the war.
Maybe one night when my insomnia's acting up! 8^)
The U.S. is a culture which, idiotic though it be, recently castigated a
public figure for using "niggardly" in a speech! Does anyone seriously
believe there wouldn't be an almighty uproar if slaves weren't *somehow*
represented in a Civil War Lego series? Or at least if their absence weren't
addressed in some way? That, I think, and the resultant effect on market
success, would be a deciding factor in the use or non-use of the Civil War as
a theme.
Someone elsewhere in this thread observed that slaves featured heavily in
the pirate industry but are absent from Lego Pirates. True enough, but I
don't recall seeing the Lego Pirates Sugar Cargo set, either, so the exclusion
of any one brand of Pirate's "cargo" doesn't necessarily signify a deliberate
overlooking of slavery as an issue in the theme.
In addition, slavery is ingrained on today's popular consciousness (again,
regardless of its "true" place to Civil War historians) as a part of the cause
of the War. Until some mass re-education occurs by which everyone can be
brought into line with historians' understanding of the period, it is this
perception with which Lego would have to contend in launching a Civil War
theme.
Dave!
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| (...) The reason you don't see slaves in the pirate theme is that slaves really aren't part of the romanticized pirate genre. This is also the reason I doubt we will see a Civil War theme, or any other real war theme. They haven't been romanticized. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| (...) Personally, it seems to me that there would be an uproar if slaves *were* included in a Civil War theme. I remember a lot of very heated debates in an otherwise calm high school American History class when we discussed the topic of slavery and (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| (...) Don't forget to anger the south, the slaves there were posetions. (SP?) Slavery and the ultimate freeing of the slaves were just minor downfalls of the south. I encourage anyone who doesn't support the lego/Civil war issue because of racial (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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