Roots and the trope of the good slaveholder

Despite objections that the Roots miniseries painted all the blacks as good and the whites as bad, or conversely that the addition of sympathetic white characters undermined its critique of slavery and racism, the series frequently employs the trope of the ‘good slave holder.’ This was a feature of abolitionist literature that served to give sympathetic white readers someone to identify with initially while driving home the message that slavery could never be made good by even the most benevolent master, and that whites were morally obligated to support black freedom

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