Searoaders

The Searoaders are one of the factions active in the Caribbean Sea in the Shattered Circle setting.

In the wake of the CSA’s conquest of the South, the abolitionist movements based out of the Union and the UK have turned increasingly to sea routes to smuggle out the newly enslaved populations. Taken together, they are called the Searoaders - an extension of the Underground Railroad that smuggles escaped slaves north.

Generally speaking, the Searoaders have no real long-term goal besides the continued rescue and transport of escaped slaves from the CSA; they believe that, even if there is no political or military change that might destroy the Confederacy and outlaw slavery once and for all, they still have the moral obligation to afford aid to their fellow people. Some of their more radical members might advocate for changes within the legal system to outlaw slavery, though the nature of the CSA makes this nearly impossible.

In Game
The Searoaders faction has several factions, backed by nation-states, and they have offices in different parts of the Caribbean.


 * British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS), with offices in:
 * Belize City
 * Cockburn Town
 * Emancipation Society (ES), with offices in:
 * Nassau
 * Abolitionist Society (AS), with offices in:
 * Christiansted
 * Kingston
 * Societe des Amis de la Liberte (SAL), with offices in:
 * Basse Terre
 * Kingston

An informal agreement between the searoaders are as follows: the UES generally covers the eastern portion of the CSA's area, between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico; the BASS covers Cuba and the CSA mainland, as well as the northern portion of Central America. The SAL, meanwhile, handles work in the southern Central American region.

Generally speaking, searoaders are civilians, and do not have much by the way of armament or funding, but they do have extensive public connections with the ‘Great and Good’ who wish to be seen as supporting a relatively non-controversial political cause in their native countries. As such, being linked to searoaders can help with public relations.

Known Searoaders
Some known Searoaders include:


 * Edmund Burgess, Director of the BFASS office in Belize City
 * Claude-Etienne Bechet, Director of the SAL, based in Basse Terre
 * Pierre Restaud, Deputy Director of the SAL, based at Kingston