Who would have thought that the Amish would ever be significant? Indeed though they are. Deep in Pennsylvania, in the laid back hills where zombies and radiation is at some of the lowest levels on the coast, they have made a name for themselves. Industry is destroyed, what little infrastructure left is fought over like vultures over a piece of roadkill. The Amish, used to living simple and working hard, have helped tens of thousands to survive in return for protection, not believing in violence themselves. At first this awkward truce worked out well, but now its unlikely to continue.
Slave traders, frequently capturing wastelanders and raiding small settlements, have begun scamming Amish and some Quaker communities. It is normal for one of these villages to hire mercenaries for protection in exchange for food and shelter. What some devious slavers have done is pose as hired guns to gain access to the village, then will signal a larger force hidden in the distance to move in and capture the entire village to be sold as slaves. Sometimes these slavers will not even move the community, just put them in chains and tracking devices then force them to grow food and livestock for their own use. These modern overseers are far from a laughing matter
While slaving is outlawed in most of the major cities and in New Canada, smaller districts with their own militias have various laws that often allow 18th century-style slavery. Pity to those slavers who fall to abolitionists however. Its also not uncommon for wastelanders to come into a city with tales of getting captured by slavers only to wake up the next morning with their bonds cut- and their captors throats cut. The Amish however, will take a long time to start trusting outsiders again.
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