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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2223340" data-attributes="member: 6533">Well, I think my general counter-point would be that I don't really think you've considered the history of the results in question or how those results would change given the consequences of the actions you advocate.  Causality is a complicated subject, as is French history.My specific counter-point would be that if someone is killing you not fighting back based on the faith that said person will later lead you into greater prosperity than you are capable of doing yourself seems to be a rather non-sensical position since, having been killed, you won't be in a position to enjoy the fruits of said prosperity.As another point, apparently the French had a pretty high turnover rate in their slave populations and were highly reliant on first generation migrant slaves.  This seems to be a common point in both the Haitian and Roman slave revolts, so you might very well be looking at a similar explosion in the case of the hypothetical markets for the empire in question.On a related note, NewJeff, how is this kingdom acquiring these slaves?  The method matters a great deal as it determines what mix of cultural groups and experience the slaves in question will have.  Are they selling them in lots?  In homogenous cultural groups?  Are they actively hunting slaves or taking them through some legal pretense?  If this kingdom is exporting 50,000 slaves a year they must have something close to total market dominance in a lot of areas.  It would be intersting to know what sort of customers they expect to have.</blockquote>

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