It's often fun to look back on history and wonder what would I have done. Would I have joined Columbus? Participated in the Crusades?
I could see myself as a slave holder. I could see myself as an abolitionist. I guess it would depend on how I was raised and the treatment of slaves that I knew.
Recently I watched a movie where the transfer of power was presided over by a priest or whoever and not the monarch herself. I was reminded how the Pope often had more power the King. If I were there at a ceremony of this kind, I probably would have been burned as a heretic for taking the priests life or something.
Posted by Michael at September 18, 2004 08:45 AM