Was that apparently in the post-Civil War South, all the black people up and left the region.
They didn't need to include the issue of slavery because it wasn't absolutely necessary to the story. But this depiction literally "white washed" the whole thing. Apparently in the Tug Fork area, it was white people and white people only.
Yay for a history lesson!
its not a story about race man. also, i expect many did move away from the south after the war.
shareI know it's not a story about race. But to exclude black people from the region completely (not even as extras?) is a little ridiculous.
It would be like making a WW2 movie set in Germany without any Jewish people around.
The hillier regions of the Confederate states did not have such big plantations, and so fewer slaves. Some such hilly regions were downright pro-Union, so little did they have in common with the secessionists. West Virginia, for example, came into being only in 1863, as a reward for staying loyal to the Union, unlike the rest of Virginia.
The white people in those parts did not have big plantations and slaves. They were poor and small landholders. They didn't fight for slavery, but for states' rights.
It is totally historically accurate.
There really weren't many black folk in that region.
shareFunny that you mentioned, "History Lesson", because you need one.
shareIt's West Virginia...hardly the south.
Silver tuna tonight!
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