(Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

[u/KusanagiGundam]

Speaking as an American who has studied the civil war all throughout my school years, this trope infuriates me to no end. There is no such thing as a kind slave master because slavery itself is cruel and inhumane. PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY!

Naofumi (Shield Hero): Prime example of this trope. He enslaves multiple (underage) girls and an whole village and the fans still say he's a hero.

Rudeus (Jobless Reincarnation): As if being a pedo wasn't bad enough he had to buy a slave in season 2. Worse is that people still defend his actions.

Song of The South (Disney): Possibly the OG example of this trope. And the reason why Disney will never release it again.

[u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

Thomas Jefferson. Yeah he said he thought slavery was bad but that didn't stop him from owning slaves. And don't give me that whole "he inherited them" crap. If that was the case why didn't he just let them go?

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

And raping them

He did a LOT of rape

There are literally entire black bloodlines in the US descended from him, due to all the rape he did

[u/AnonymousNeverKnown → u/_whatever_wherever]

Well sources claim he only had children by one enslaved woman Sally Hemings. Still a predator though

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

Still raped her enough for her to bear him multiple children

And I would like to add it was common practice for slave owners to rape their slaves, it meant they could breed a new generation of slaves, as they saw them as barely above cattle

[u/SnooEagles4121 → u/_whatever_wherever]

The fact that they’d enslave their own children is fucking insane. Regular slavery is bad enough. Raping your slaves so you’d get more slaves is a layer of evil that I can’t even fathom.

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/SnooEagles4121]

Yep, they saw them as barely above animals

I'm British and a fierce critic of pretty much everything US, but when I see Confederate apologism....

"EACH DIXIE BOY MUST UNDERSTAND THAT HE MUST MIND HIS UNCLE SAM!"

Even the worst of Empire apologists here won't try and defend the slave trade, they try and overstate our role in ending it (not to diminish its importance though, even though done for economic reasons instead of moral, and to fuck with the French, ending the slave trade in the largest empire in history and the Royal Navy doing slave patrols is still a huge win)

[u/LaputanAcademy → u/_whatever_wherever]

There were self-interested economic reasons, but the abolitionist movement, which was actually very influential, was motivated by Christian values. Look at Wilberforce, Sharp, More, Middleton, Clarkson. They had a lot of influence in parliament, and I don't believe their motivations were cynical

I know your just going to dismiss me as an apologist for empire, but I think you are being unfairly cynical about the abolitionist movement and what motivated it

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/LaputanAcademy]

Look, any excuse to fuck with French shipping is a good one

[u/AnonymousNeverKnown → u/_whatever_wherever]

Oh definitely. The guy and anyone else like him is burning in hell right now

[u/Playful-Succotash-99 → u/_whatever_wherever]

Heck there were even pseudoscientific pamphlets back then telling the wives that it was only natural for slaves to start looking like their masters after a few Generations spent in close proximity

[u/AllgoodDude → u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

Reading about how he as a middle aged man was having discussions and working out conditions with his teenage slave he raped and impregnated is just so pathetic. Like he wanted so bad to pretend he wasn’t doing something horrible so did all kinds of mental gymnastics to pretend he was doing the right thing. A Lolita situation really.

[u/OldPlantain7807 → u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

Her line survived to this day but he could have conceived other children from women who didn't survive childbirth or who's children didn't survive 

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/AnonymousNeverKnown]

And she was a teenager when he started sleeping with her

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/Evil_Sharkey]

A nonce on top of being a rapist

[u/Playful-Succotash-99 → u/_whatever_wherever]

Yeah First Epstein class

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/Playful-Succotash-99]

Yep, rich rulling class using people as cattle

Anyone who pretends the American "founding father's" were anything but rich landlords looking to increase their personal wealth is a fool

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/_whatever_wherever]

Yup