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Originally Posted by DNSB
You run into the issue that you have to avoid so many nasty historical facts no matter where in the world you set your film.
I still remember being called into a parent/teacher/principal conference when my daughter did a essay on the slave trade where she wrote that for the most part, European slavers did not go out hunting slaves, they anchored offshore and traded for the slaves being supplied by other Africans or they purchased the slaves from an established factor who purchased them from their African owners. The documentary shown to her class was the usual crap with the Europeans landing and hunting down the inhabitants who were living lives straight out of a Disney film. This type of expedition did happen but often more often than not resulted in more deaths on both sides than could be considered economically viable.
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Yep, I'm aware of that. But slavery was universal in the ancient world, even in the pre-Columbian times. There's no getting around that fact. Can you make a movie about ancient Rome without the slaves? Perhaps only Disney could. And I'm pretty sure many, if not the most, of those Roman slaves were white.