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The 7 wonders of the great civilizations were built by slave-power, and societies' need to enslave weaker neighbors went unquestioned for millennia. Until the day an audacious petition was sent to Parliament, not just to end slavery in England, but throughout the entire world! In this game, you assume the role of an abolitionist during the Age of Enlightenment, either a Parliamentarian, an evangelical, or a private philanthropist. Assign warships to blockade slave ports or intercept slave ships, install missions, trading posts, and colonies in foreign lands steeped in serfdom, challenge the institution of slavery on moral and legal grounds in courts, and sanction underground railroads, slave revolts and revolutions. Play in cooperative-competitive, cooperative, or solitaire modes. If victorious, you achieve the greatest political accomplishment in history: making slavery everywhere illegal.
—description from the publisher
Year Published
2018
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Shelf or Sell general_discussion at 14:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- complements Pax Transhumanity nicely
Cons
- may require base Pax experience
Thematic elements
- pax expansion line
Comparison games
- Pax Transhumanity
- Pax Viking
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- legacy / scenario-based play — adds new rules and scenarios for Pax universe
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Quotes (from this video)
- you are a pepper farmer
- this is eclipse this is a four second dawn for the galaxy 4e game that i have actually played
- i'm teaching alex this
- i'm so excited that i now know how to play this game
- it's a tile laying game where you're laying out a map
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Pax Emancipation Playthrough playthrough at 0:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Thematic depth with global scope, exploring slavery, emancipation, and anti-colonialism beyond a single region.
- Interlocking economic and political systems that reward strategic planning and long-term thinking.
- Rich interpretive layer where theme informs mechanics, aligning with the designer’s intent.
- Clear rewards for engaging with revolutions and legislative processes via viable ideas.
Cons
- High complexity and a steep learning curve for new players.
- Potential for long play sessions and extended downtime with multi-layered decision trees.
- Balancing challenges due to the large number of interacting systems (syndicates, reforms, revolutions, dissidents).
Thematic elements
- Slavery, emancipation, anti-colonialism, political reform, and the ethics of revolution
- Global 18th–19th century emancipation context spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa; interplay of abolitionist movements, colonial structures, and global trade
- Designer-driven interpretation that foregrounds theme over strict historical reenactment; emphasizes the moral debates around slavery and reform
Comparison games
- Pax Pamir
- Pax Renaissance
- Pax Porfirio
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dissidents, wealth, and markets — Dissidents can be converted into wealth or offset by replacing with other dissidents, altering power dynamics and providing strategic options.
- Fundraising and capital management — Convert debt and wealth into capital to fund actions, enabling expansion of influence across regions, with maritime bonuses for certain plays.
- Operations with preconditions and costs — A family of actions (westernize, manumission, literacy, suffrage) each with prerequisites and costs that require careful planning and resource management.
- Revolutions and freedom ideas — Players build freedom pairs (via Candle, Lock, Feather) to make revolutions viable, driving major political shifts and legislative opportunities.
- Syndicate action — Play and arrange cards to gain influence, trigger chain effects, and build long-term engine for resources and actions.
- Underground Railroad and barrier manipulation — A network mechanic that helps bypass barriers and enables liberation actions across regions, affecting global slavery dynamics.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's not just about the chattel slaves of the colonies of North America it's about the global idea of slavery
- what's interesting about the philanthropists giving their traders they're good with money they've got a special ability it says may install agents from capital wealth or debt
- what Eklund does with his games is he dives deep into the theme and of course puts his own slant on things
- slavery change from being everywhere legal to being everywhere a crime against individual rights
- we're going to liberate slaves all over the world
- this is an elephant action
- Underground Railroad can also help us
- checking the powers of the sultan it's interesting this game because although it's a game all right we're not reenacting history
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