So

it is racist towards black americans because of the history. they still suffer through racism to this day and being called “slave” is such a horrible term putting down people just because of their race along with the treatment of slaves. the black americans suffered immensely throughout history
to this day

Many, MANY reasons... The whole thing is tone-deaf. It leans heavily into racist tropes like the slave/master dynamic and the white savior narrative. It's the same as trying to romanticize a Nazi/Jewish relationship or an Imperial Japanese soldier/comfort woman relationship. The history behind those dynamics makes them really disgusting to treat as romance.

Also, as other people have pointed out, the enslaved characters barely feel like characters. They don't have much agency and mostly exist to thank a rich white protagonist for "saving" them, which just makes the whole thing feel even more tasteless.

Another thing people have pointed out is Ezra's design being... odd, to say the least. It feels like they wanted him to be "exotic" while still fitting conventional beauty standards.


At the end of the day, it's a story that uses the horrors of slavery as a backdrop for a romance (big no no).

Oh, I got it, thank you