Agree. That's not realistic for the time (unless the characters lived in a community that had…

…f you write a historical character, show them struggling to escape from the mores of their society. To write — as some authors do — as though your whole cast of characters is instinctively against slavery, for instance, is to cheapen and discount the severity and social entrenchment of the issue.
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Agree. That's not realistic for the time (unless the characters lived in a community that had strong anti-slavery views, such as the Quakers).
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