“Come on. What did he really think was going to happen?” They all turned to her. “What do you mean?” Wainwright asked. “I mean, Goodman was a white dude shacking up with a black girl in the years before the Civil War. What did he think? That the murderous cocksuckers from the slave state next door were just going to let that happen?” “He loved her.” It was Kate,
This seems gross and like Thomas wants to give himself permission for an unexamined relationship between a black woman and a white man during slavery.
