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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8313030" data-attributes="member: 4534">It's pretty clear that Run Explorer is speaking of slavery within the context of US history rather than world history.  As a legal entity, the institution of slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865.  (Not to imply that everything went perfectly since then.  But such discussions are beyond the scope of this thread I think.)  While it's not a deal breaker for me it's something I usually don't care for me.  I fell in love with Deadlands in spite of the continued existence of the Confederacy.  Originally, I think they really wanted to go for a spy vs. spy Cold War vibe between the USA and the CSA, but such things were never part of my Deadlands campaigns nor did most published adventurers focus on it.  In the latest version of Deadlands, the Civil War was prolonged but the CSA was ultimately defeated in 1871.  Sometimes a premise doesn't have to be realistic to tell a good story (see Batman).  The mockumentary C.S.A. Confederate States of America posits a modern day CSA that still had slavery. Is it realistic? Not at all. But it says something both about the society that still venerates the South as well as those doing the venerating.</blockquote>