If your players don ' t have a problem getting in bed with organized crime , you might be able to broker a deal with whatever criminal organization is opposed to your local Yaks . If you still have the street sam ' s clothes a chemist might be able to separate out the chemicals that soaked them and isolate them , giving you an extra bargaining chip for sanctuary . <| sep |> I ' m glad we evolved from the porn . jpg <| sep |> How do you feel about zyklon B ? <| sep |> You are not missing much . It went down the shitter . <| sep |> I can ' t speak much to British opinion . I know there was widespread opposition to slavery in principle , but roughly from when the UK abolishes slavery in the 1830 s India excepted there ' s also a sense that it was a mistake . Abolition was sold on the theory that the British West Indies would keep on producing as before , or do better . Turns you that you can ' t drive free workers like you can slaves and lots of slaves would rather just grow food for their families rather than crash crops for export . To that set , abolition is a humanitarian folly . This was appreciated in the US , where the UK ' s efforts to restrict the slave trade and promote freedom were seen by white southerners as a way to drag everyone else down to their level . There were some regulations adopted by state governments on how slaves should be treated and they came with punishment for violation . But we shouldn ' t understand them as modern labor laws enforced by a vigilant state . Slave state governments were barely ever vigilant about anything except preserving slavery . An active state was understood as one that could be turned to antislavery purposes , an attitude which carries over heavily into national politics . I ' m not familiar with all the details , but typical slave codes barely considered the welfare of the enslaved . They make some provisions toward it , but they ' re insubstantial and ineffective . You can do almost anything you want to an enslaved person , short of murder , and it would not be a crime . Murder is , but it ' s virtually never prosecuted I think there are less than five cases in the entire antebellum . I ' ve read language to the effect that if moderate correction ends in the death of a slave , it ' s fine . Your jurors would be all white men in a slave society , so their idea of moderate is going to be exceptionally generous even on top of the law itself saying that killing a person isn ' t necessarily excessive . Whipping , mutilation , and the like are seen as basically normal and an enslaver who refuses to whip slaves could be seen as lax to the point that it might endanger the community . When a slave revolt , conspiracy , or rumors of the same go around , soft touch masters are right up there with abolitionists in causing it . As a practical matter , enslavers had unlimited power over the lives of the enslaved and interfering with that was seen as dangerously close to abolitionism . It ' s only during Reconstruction that the power of the masters is transferred to state governments on a large scale . SourcesInhuman Bondage by David Brion DavisReconstruction by Eric FonerRiver of Dark Dreams and Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson