RE: Day 678: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: wildfires
Hi @deeanndmathews!
What an interesting and complex task you took upon yourself! The difficulty of bringing historical personages to modern time would be, of course, the huge shift in society’s mentality in regards to slavery, equality and civil right. Should General Lee be born in our time he’d never be having the same backward values as he had 200 years ago.
Russia also had slavery just about at the same time starting from roughly in 16 century and abolishing it in 1961 only a year earlier than in the States. Only it didn’t import salves but used “local reserves” their own people. Although abolishment didn’t result in the civil war like it was the United States, it was a hugely debated topic and the tsar eventually did it from purely economic considerations rather than from compassion.
There was an attempt to free the slaves yet in 1926, but it was suppressed and people who wanted to do it was executed or sent to Siberia. Then it is well known what all this lead to – the communist revolution of 1917 and then to Stalin’s regime.
If I were to take a historical person from 1819 and move him or her to 2019 he or she may have the same characters and appearance but would be born in today’s reality and have today’s values.
All that to say is to underline the again the difficulty of your task. I’d like to read it from the beginning though.
I haven't QUITE done a move ...consider the history of the Civil War and several of its most memorable men as a big set of ingredients used to cook up fiction that touches on current events that wrap around the same unresolved issues...
To read it from the beginning ... Captain Hamilton is my #freewrite detective, and so that goes a long way back... this thing really starts with my introducing a new character for him to interact with, and the sizable reaction I got around that interaction from readers here. Captain Lee is more recent, starting in the big story ... so, let me do this: Captain Hamilton alone is best represented in "Death at the Pool", and this contains links to key freewrites to understand the Tinyville captain and the space he lives in. After that, enjoy Black, White, and RED All Over -- here are parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve, epilogue 1, and epilogue 2.
I will read all your episodes as time will permit. I just commented on the gravity of the load that you've understood. You are a brave person!
Why thank you, @mgaft1!