Well, I suppose what made me uncomfortable was the mm--I don't know, the bringing it up. Not that I think they need to demonize the particular family, but, how good can one be to one's slave? I guess if a family owned slaves, if it was a practice that was bigger than the choice the family would've otherwise wanted to make, it's fine that they perhaps didn't tend to heap cruelties onto it, but it doesn't quite enoble anyone if they didn't. Many slaves staying--it was said in a spirit of demonstrating something about the "owners" rather than about the way things were. It seems to want to stretch beyond what we can possibly really know about the family, historically, and is a crude generalization however true it may be.

I guess it was the sentiment of it that bothered me--I'd prefer they stuck to mere information, admittedly incomplete information, and didn't try to make a case about things.