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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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* Simple question: In works of fiction, who tends to have more admirers and sympathizers among fans, the good guys or the bad guys? Well, there you go. |
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* Alexis de Toqueville once met a plantation owner who had impregnated several of his slaves and was surprised to learn that by a quirk in the local law he could not free them: Which meant that he had to live knowing that his ''own children'' would grow up as slaves. |
* Alexis de Toqueville once met a plantation owner who had impregnated several of his slaves and was surprised to learn that by a quirk in the local law he could not free them: Which meant that he had to live knowing that his ''own children'' would grow up as slaves. |
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** This was actually a common practice amoung slaveowners, at least in the U.S. Most slaveowners, however, just thought "hey, free slaves". |
** This was actually a common practice amoung slaveowners, at least in the U.S. Most slaveowners, however, just thought "hey, free slaves". |
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