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Not all plantation owners were bad? Good grief.
Kind of like saying, "There were very fine people" on both sides of the Charlottesville protest.
Fiction and metaphor are actual words. You might want to look them up.
The "hopeful idea" that people came together above ground and risked, and sometimes even gave, their lives in an effort to help slaves get to freedom was probably sounded like fantasy at some point, too. And if you actually believe that anyone who thought it acceptable to own human beings, beat them, raped them, and split up families at will wasn't a bad person, you are sadly mistaken.
I think his agenda is to highlight what a horrific institution slavery was - do you have a different interpretation than that?
@Frances M.: "He had an agenda"? You mean he was depicting slavery as an unmitigated and incomparable evil? You mean he had an agenda to depict the racist power structure that instituted, maintained, and profited from slavery as evil?
How could one portray slavery without that agenda? Do you prefer the pro-slavery propaganda of "Gone With the Wind"?
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Not all plantation owners were bad? Good grief.
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Kind of like saying, "There were very fine people" on both sides of the Charlottesville protest.
Fiction and metaphor are actual words. You might want to look them up.The "hopeful idea" that people came together above ground and risked, and sometimes even gave, their lives in an effort to help slaves get to freedom was probably sounded like fantasy at some point, too. And if you actually believe that anyone who thought it acceptable to own human beings, beat them, raped them, and split up families at will wasn't a bad person, you are sadly mistaken.
I think his agenda is to highlight what a horrific institution slavery was - do you have a different interpretation than that?
@Frances M.: "He had an agenda"? You mean he was depicting slavery as an unmitigated and incomparable evil? You mean he had an agenda to depict the racist power structure that instituted, maintained, and profited from slavery as evil?How could one portray slavery without that agenda? Do you prefer the pro-slavery propaganda of "Gone With the Wind"?
