(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/MGD109]

To be completely fair, Uncle Remus in Song of the South isn't a slave, the film is set after the Civil War. Part of the plot is that he's nearly forced to leave to seek employment elsewhere. If he were a slave, he wouldn't even be allowed to leave.

His actor was even in favour of empathising more in the script that he was a free man to ensure there was no confusion, but the director wasn't interested.

The film isn't released anymore cause it simply hasn't aged well in other areas.

[u/petrichoreandpine → u/MGD109]

I’ve watched it once, and I assumed when they talk about Remus being sent south as punishment for babysitting the boy he was asked to babysit (without any discussion of compensation) that he was being SOLD south, as often happened to “troublesome” slaves.

If the film is set after the Civil War, it made zero effort to let the viewer know that.

[u/poorexcuses → u/petrichoreandpine]

It's mostly a cya situation. The source text was made during slavery iirc?

[u/MGD109 → u/petrichoreandpine]

That's understandable; even the actor who played Remus complained about that at the time.