Talk:Free Republic of Atlantis

"The Free Republic of Atlantis is based on the Confederate States."

No it isn't. The only things the two pseudo-states have in common is that they were in the geographical south of their respective countries, and each essentially caused a civil war that ended slavery in their respective countries.

The CSA came about as a preemptive attempt to prevent the end of slavery. The FRA is the inverse of the CSA: it was a slave rebellion dedicated to bringing the end of slavery in Atlantis. There are number of incidents Turtledove was probably looking at when he created the FRA (Haiti, the Roman Servile Insurrections, the various South American wars for independence, etc.), but the CSA was almost certainly not one of them. TR (talk) 21:41, September 30, 2014 (UTC)