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Because it is so rare that Lawrence has probably never heard of it. There were only 100 made per year while it was made. Breachlaoding riffles are just to comlicated and precise to be worth making with a blacksmith, you need machine tools to make them in meaningful numbers.

The problem is that they have to be manufactured in lots of a thousand to be considered for any army, and you can't mass manufacture breach-loading riffles without better steal making techniques than was available during the Napoleonic wars. Its only in the late 1850s that metalurgy advanced to...

Simply declaring serfdom to not be slaver because it is not chattel slavery is fallacious. Serfdom is a form of slavery that is a separate category of slavery than chattel slavery. The serf is property of the state rather than an individual. This completely changes the dynamic of this form of...

particularly when England OTL was responsible for ending the slave trade. Well, with the sole exception of them enslaving English speaking sailors.

The historical misconceptions she had about the African slave trade were particularly annoying.

The worst parts of the serries were caused by the author reacting to precisely that criticism.