This comment here...I'm glad someone else thinks about this stuff.
Honestly, it’s not realistic at all. His wife and the slave owner beat the slave constantly and the slave forgave him because he was a ‘good’ person??
That's why I'm saying Stockholm syndrome and post slave syndrome. Like its crazy how they just let that go. Only a person who lived in such a bad condition for such a bad long time would just get past there abusive master and fall for them. Like the romanticization of slave x slave owner like there wasn't abuse or anything worse is maddening and insane.
It reminds me of 12 years a Slave- patsey’s life. It’s horrible how they did romanticised the slave and slave owners and trying to pass off his abuse as a small redemption arc by getting slapped by his father? And we’re supposed to feel sorry for the wife that she didn’t get her love reciprocated? That couple was just a mess and shouldn’t have even left the drafts
This story must be every colonizers wet dream. Cause most slave would detest the person enough to kill them and the fact that all the couples are slave owner and slave puts me off.
The first couple seems rational and actually good but the last 2 are straight up slave owner and slave, Stockholm Syndrome and post slave syndrome. This is kinda sick to me but people keep wanting to bring up other shitty stories as if glorifying slavery is not on a similar level as r@pe which was common back then.
This story should have stopped at the first couple or had a slave on slave couple cause this author just seems to like slave x colonizers couples the most.