Comment by CressentM00n on ItsNotOverYet

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@ItsNotOverYet If 100% assuming his race to be of African descendant for two main reasons (1 is logic and time lines don't add up and the second is more of a preference). One, even though he called them "laborers" you must be under the impression that this is after the salves were emancipated however the time line wouldn't match up. The northern salves should have been freed around the late 17th and early 18th hundred I believe ( please correct me if I'm wrong as I'm going based on world/Caribbean history) and the war which I don't believe was the American revolution war because we still clearly see nobles/ maids. I'm about 85% after America can indepence they dropped that system as it was an England system. The fact that he had to pay them and for their freedom was something only slaves had. Freed people were free, indentured laborers were free the only one I could think of that would somewhat apply to this is the apprenticeship system but it still wouldn't apply as the cow boy Era happened in the late 18th hundreds. Secondly as I stated in my rant, the main characters all tend to be attractive. My issue is the fact all the background people had short curly hair and across while the " attractive love interest " has pin straight hair. That's my issue, I could have been less mad if they all had straight hair but nope. They singled out the only one to have straight hair.
I have been alive since the first dawn and I will be alive to watch the last sunset.

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ItsNotOverYetChat Legend·15 hours ago
@CressentM00n Thanks for the reply! I'm asking just for clarification.
Spoiler!
I'm not from the USA, and my knowledge of it's history is superficial. I come from a country whose history, unfortunately, also included slavery, where whites (and other nationalities) were slaves and whites were masters, divided by origin and birth. And from my own country's history, I know that more than one nation (but many) experienced slavery, and that emancipation from slavery didn't happen instantly. I can assume that in these respects, the histories of different countries are similar.

Ah, I understand, the timeline is inaccurate! First, there should have been emancipation in a northern state like Illinois, then a military conflict, and then demobilization (and the cowboy era is very roughly ~1865-~1890). And it was at this point (1865-1866) that MC arrives in the wasteland.

Honestly, I got the impression that MC didn't give money as a way to free the slaves. There was a promotional video for this story on social media, and the video described the subsequent events: MC selling everything he owned, paying off all his father's debts, and giving away all his money because he was going to end his life. So, perhaps this gesture had that meaning. (But this is speculation; we'll never know, so it's just speculation.)
I got the impression that ML's race could be Native American descendant. I don't know how likely that is. And based on this, I thought ML's straight hair made sense.

I apologize for any mistakes; English is not my native language.