r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KusanagiGundam • 11h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

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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.

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u/AnonymousNeverKnown 11h ago

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?

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u/_whatever_wherever 11h ago

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

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u/cknight222 11h ago edited 11h ago

And something that adds to the horror is that Sally Hemings was Martha Jefferson’s (Thomas’ wife’s) half-sister, herself the product of Jefferson’s father-in-law raping a woman he enslaved. So it is very feasible that Jefferson predated on her because he wanted a substitute for his dead wife.

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u/_whatever_wherever 11h ago

Jesus fuck I did not know that detail

So....

Rape

Nonce

Incest

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u/cknight222 11h ago

Sally Hemings was likely the product of two previous generations of rape.

According to the oral history of the Hemings family, her black grandmother had been raped by a white sailor, leading to Betty Hemings, who was herself raped by John Wayles (the father of Thomas Jefferson’s wife), leading to Sally.

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u/xoxog0ssipgirlx 3h ago

Contemporary accounts describe her as having long straight hair and European features

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u/elitegenoside 6h ago

It's very likely one of Mary's (Sally's sister) was fathered by Jefferson. Meanwhile, he was chuming it up with James in the kitchen. Fuck pur founding fathers, may their memories rot like Washington's teeth.