Wow, that's an interesting question. Being black my mind keeps veering 
towards black history. But I've always had a fascination with Native 
American tribes. So I'll jump in on this thread. If I were to do an 
alternate history, I'd do a story that would somehow make the Native 
American tribes and the African tribes conquer the white tribes. If I 
recall my history well, many an escaped slave were taken in by Native 
Americans and they were the ones who warned the Indians that the white 
man could not be trusted with a treaty. Furthermore while many Native 
Americans owned slaves from warfare and learned to own African slaves 
(in the economic white way) there were many Natives who did not return 
escaped slaves. If the Native Americans had not been warring against 
each other (in that white divide and conquer way) they might have 
joined together with Africans and changed history.

Just a thought.

-C

--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> if you were to write an alternative history, what historical event 
> would be your starting point?  i believe at least one person already 
> chimed in (one jumping off point was "what would have happened if 
> martin died before malcolm?")
> 
> lks
> On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:05 AM, belsidus2000 wrote:
> 
> > <<I am a little lost here. Maybe you can clarify what you want to do
> >  re brainstorming-->>
> >
> >  Chris
> >





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