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.
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 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.
Yeah that will calm the racial tensions down in this country.
Soros backed?
Huh? Third Civil War? Did I fall asleep and miss something?
Besides, the Usual Race Baiting Suspects will be out of their minds raving over a TV series depicting institutionalized slavery of blacks.
Did I miss the second one?
Slavery only works when slavers are not in competition with free men for land. A free man works as hard as he can, to provide for his family. A slave only works as hard as he has to, to avoid punishment. The free man will thus produce more from an acre of land than the slave will, and thus be able to out-bid the slaver for land.
Slavery only worked in this country when land was effectively free to whoever was willing to claim it and farm on it. Once the country filled up, slavery would be uneconomical. That's why there was such a continuous push by the slavers to legalize slavery in the western territories.
I am sure they will delve deeply into the subject of master - slave sex.
Two Oy Vey Gen Xers depict Dixie in as negative a light as possible
What does one expect
I hope it crashes and burns
Eff Benioff and Weiss
I’m so sick of this shit
Always destructive virtue signaling at my expense
Why not do something self critical?
That would take actual balls
Little of that to be found in the Hollywood Hills