Decisive Action
26-09-2004, 20:43
Slavery in the Commonwealth had always been a touchy and divisive issue. But in the late 1990s, Charles Stahlecker had managed to get slavery and the slave trade banned and outlawed in Mississippi and the Northern American Commonwealth territories. However, this did little to stop the spread of slavery into the African commonwealth nations as Mississippi expanded into Africa. The plantation owners simply moved shop to Western Sahara and Mississippi Egypt.
Of the ten million whites in Western Sahara, 100,000 were plantation owners, one percent of the white population were the rich elite that owned at least a thousand (1,000) or more slaves to work their massive plantations.
The plantation system was inherently flawed though, there were approximately a hundred million black slaves in the rural regions working on plantations that were typically only guarded by a half-dozen white males at the most. Each plantation owner typically had his family on the estate near the plantation, usually a wife and between five and eight children, and then the manager and his family, and the overseer and his family. The resulting situation being about thirty or forty whites living on a plantation estate, with eight or nine being males capable of bearing arms, whilst almost a thousand slaves toiled in the cotton and tobacco fields.
Czar Roger Fabus had always been against slavery, and he had moved to stamp it out, but the labor slavery of non-whites was something he really lacked the will to stamp out. He knew to attempt to do so would ignite a secession crisis in Western Sahara and Mississippian Egypt. And preserving the federation was his most important goal.
Now the other issue was white slavery, mostly in Mississippian Egypt, rich white male nobles purchasing dozens of foreign white women to keep as breeding stock. The WKM (White Knights of Mississippi) had been actively opposing this and had gotten into street fights with the SOE (Society of Eugenicists), the leading pro-slavery group. The main problem was that ¼ of the 190 million whites in Mississippian Egypt were female slaves being kept as breeding stock by rich elite nobles. The situation was rapidly growing out of control though in the Arab and black slave labor sectors. The plantation owners were rapidly importing slaves into ME at such a rate that whites would soon go from 90% of the population to 60% if they continued at their current rate of slave importation.
In Mississippian Egypt, approximately two million white plantation owners own 80% of all arable land and control 75% of the territories wealth. They successfully managed to use their allies in the Senate (Mainly Hans Luck, and on some matters, Simon Rutledge) to get legislation passed to make it a crime to teach a non-white to read or write, and to ban non-whites from holding government offices. They also managed to get a law passed called, “The Fugitive Slave Act” requiring that anybody coming across an escaped slave must report them to authorities and cannot legally render them any aide whatsoever.
Roger Fabus finally deliverered an ultimatum to Mississippian Egyptian Governor-General John Tallmadge, “End slavery or else.” Tallmadge wanted to end it, but knew it would be politic suicide to do so, so he refused and stated, “We will sooner secede than end slavery.”
Henry Stahlecker, governor-general of Western Sahara replied with a similar message, “Secession or Slavery, take your pick.”
Another major point of contention is that each of the Commonwealth Nations, (Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Western Sahara, and Mississippian Egypt) get to send representatives to the Federal Commonwealth Senate, and the representation goes by population. Just taking free whites, the North American territories outnumber and can outvote to the African territories. But the “Two-Thirds Act of 1998” passed by Curtis Fabus to placate the pro-slavery forces after slavery was banned in North America, declared that slaves are counted for 2/3 a person to determine representation in the Federal Commonwealth Senate.
It should be noted that 90% of the Western Sahara economy is totally or massively dependant on slave labor. As for Mississippian Egypt, about 30% of their economy is dependant on slavery.
Of the ten million whites in Western Sahara, 100,000 were plantation owners, one percent of the white population were the rich elite that owned at least a thousand (1,000) or more slaves to work their massive plantations.
The plantation system was inherently flawed though, there were approximately a hundred million black slaves in the rural regions working on plantations that were typically only guarded by a half-dozen white males at the most. Each plantation owner typically had his family on the estate near the plantation, usually a wife and between five and eight children, and then the manager and his family, and the overseer and his family. The resulting situation being about thirty or forty whites living on a plantation estate, with eight or nine being males capable of bearing arms, whilst almost a thousand slaves toiled in the cotton and tobacco fields.
Czar Roger Fabus had always been against slavery, and he had moved to stamp it out, but the labor slavery of non-whites was something he really lacked the will to stamp out. He knew to attempt to do so would ignite a secession crisis in Western Sahara and Mississippian Egypt. And preserving the federation was his most important goal.
Now the other issue was white slavery, mostly in Mississippian Egypt, rich white male nobles purchasing dozens of foreign white women to keep as breeding stock. The WKM (White Knights of Mississippi) had been actively opposing this and had gotten into street fights with the SOE (Society of Eugenicists), the leading pro-slavery group. The main problem was that ¼ of the 190 million whites in Mississippian Egypt were female slaves being kept as breeding stock by rich elite nobles. The situation was rapidly growing out of control though in the Arab and black slave labor sectors. The plantation owners were rapidly importing slaves into ME at such a rate that whites would soon go from 90% of the population to 60% if they continued at their current rate of slave importation.
In Mississippian Egypt, approximately two million white plantation owners own 80% of all arable land and control 75% of the territories wealth. They successfully managed to use their allies in the Senate (Mainly Hans Luck, and on some matters, Simon Rutledge) to get legislation passed to make it a crime to teach a non-white to read or write, and to ban non-whites from holding government offices. They also managed to get a law passed called, “The Fugitive Slave Act” requiring that anybody coming across an escaped slave must report them to authorities and cannot legally render them any aide whatsoever.
Roger Fabus finally deliverered an ultimatum to Mississippian Egyptian Governor-General John Tallmadge, “End slavery or else.” Tallmadge wanted to end it, but knew it would be politic suicide to do so, so he refused and stated, “We will sooner secede than end slavery.”
Henry Stahlecker, governor-general of Western Sahara replied with a similar message, “Secession or Slavery, take your pick.”
Another major point of contention is that each of the Commonwealth Nations, (Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Western Sahara, and Mississippian Egypt) get to send representatives to the Federal Commonwealth Senate, and the representation goes by population. Just taking free whites, the North American territories outnumber and can outvote to the African territories. But the “Two-Thirds Act of 1998” passed by Curtis Fabus to placate the pro-slavery forces after slavery was banned in North America, declared that slaves are counted for 2/3 a person to determine representation in the Federal Commonwealth Senate.
It should be noted that 90% of the Western Sahara economy is totally or massively dependant on slave labor. As for Mississippian Egypt, about 30% of their economy is dependant on slavery.