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Yes to Jim Crow! And people said he gave them money and they wanted to leave like clearly y'all don't know that these people would be killed within the WEEK of them leaving with no place to live and large bundles of cash. For former slaves who were freed probably a few months ago to have that much money with no white "handler" in sight they would be killed for it

I'm black, not black American, black black, but I think, if an author wants to write anything interracial they need to think well and hard about it.
People are quite sensitive when it comes to race and slavery.
But then there's nothing out of line yet in this first chapter, he set the slaves free, I'm not saying he's a savior or anything, but he set them free okay, let's not gloss over that fact.
Then the "I'm your humble slave" I don't think there's still anything too far fetched about it, y'all should calm down okay.