Posted on 07/19/2017 4:34:02 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
The guys behind HBO's Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have a new project in the works called Confederate. The Civil War project is set up at HBO and they will start work on it as soon as they are done with Game of Thrones. Here's the description of the series:
Confederate chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone — freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.
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Bet ya anything that the CEO of the slave mega corporation is a Trump pastiche.
Are they going to consult Harry Turtledove for script ideas? He wrote several books on a similar premise.
Hard to say how this will turn out.
I suspect not very well, but who knows.
The only sure thing is that there will be a lot of naked women.
The Third Civil War? Are they counting The Revolutionary War as the first? Thanks but no thanks. They can’t even get original history accurate. Why would I want to watch this crap. They’ll probably have homos and transgenders to boot.
More revisionist tripe.
Slavery was on the way out in the south until one technical innovation; the cotton gin. What was once borderline profitable became obscenely profitable.
Given the rise of steam power, the internal combustion engine and electricity slavery would have been a wholly unprofitable institution, industry or way of life when it comes to an agrarian society.
If we’re going to use what slavery would be today? The assembly of all things electronic. All the industry we have sent to China would be done here.
[ Confederate chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone — freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall. ]
No doubt the Republicans will be the party of the south in this “altered timeline”..... given how the left loves to re-write history when it comes to the media.
Either that or they will “draw parallels to current events” in the most apples to oranges way possible.
No doubt they will have a “Trump like” character leading the south.
>>This sounds terrible in every way. Slavery was on its way out in the South. It was losing as an economic model. Given another decade and the southern states would have abolished slavery on their own.
The northern industrialists had the right idea. Why own slaves when you can rent them. Just wait for the Irish, Italians, and Eastern Europeans to get off the boat and “help them get started” and then giving them a job to pay off the debt they are incurring at the company store. If they get hurt, you let them die. Slaves are too expensive to be economically feasible compared to that.
I wonder how much they’ll steal from Harry Turtledove’s books.
Slavery, or something like it, could have lasted a very long time.
And the notion that we'd end up where we are today if the Civil War had gone the other way, is a dubious one: things could have turned out very different indeed.
Still, it sounds like a dumb idea for a television show.
Like it or hate it, the movie C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America already dealt with a similar premise back in 2004 about as well or as poorly as could be expected.
I always wondered why the South Africans don’t turn the story around on Harry and make a show where they were the good guys and the Confederates were the evil ones.
I wonder, how was slavery uneconomical? Was the South as a whole (which included slavery in 1861) uneconomical in 1861? It seems to me in retrospect that the South was doomed by the industrial might of the North (I might be wrong, this is just a naiive impression).
For reference, Harry Turtledove wrote “The Guns of the South,” which might be about a time traveler who brought AK-47s back to the Civil War via a time machine (I have only read the Riverworld stuff by Philip Jose Farmer). I tried, but could not read, The Guns of the South— the premise seemed just too implausible for me to sink any time into it, and the fantasy angle was limited by the focus on hardware such as AK-47s. Riverworld was implausible enough (regrettably, the movie is a shade too unworthy of watching).
What if they inadvertently show the Confederate battle flag?
O the huge manatee!!!!
I feel an 'I am going to be offended' coming on.
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I don’t know what history books you have read but slavery was not on it’s way out. The southern slave owners precipitated a war to protect a perceived threat to their “property”. Slaves were being used in some of the factories in the south. Without the civil war slavery would probably have lasted well into the 20th century.
More pornification of America.
Cotton growing wasn’t mechanized until the 1940s.
Or maybe Ward Moore's 1953 Bring the Jubilee
Jamees Thurber's 1941 If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox is too much to hope for.
True, but that had more to do with the lack of capital and the break up of the large plantations after the war than with any lack of technology. Mechanized farming was invented (or maybe copied) in Virginia by McCormick and swept through the Midwest almost a century earlier.
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