#also??? the offhand mention of silver working on a slave trade merchant ship???? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

butcharyastark · 1 year ago

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also like.... are we gonna talk about the elephant in the room in this show at any time. r we gonna talk abt the very many casual mentions of background slavery. like it's been 2 seasons, is the fact eleanor's family owns slaves gonna be discussed at all, or maybe how flint offscreen took the kidnapped africans back to nassau to be sold, are we gonna get any actual pov from mr. scott or the other lady or any other enslaved/formerly enslaved character on this in the story w smth so big. like im glad its not being swept under the rug like other shows like this do but normalizing it and ignoring it is bad too if thats what theyre gonna do. like cheers we know the majority of the cast are morally reprehensible people anyway but you set the mature period drama pirate show on a colonized island in the 1700s, theres no way you cant discuss the land theft and the transatlantic slave trade bro.

#ive been waiting bc it seemed for a second we were gonna get some sort of plot on that w mr scott and his thing w the guthries and relation #to the other enslaved ppl in the ship hold but then it passed by and eleanor ...bought??? bought and freed??--unclear--the one lady #and nobodys talking abt it and the lady isnt being made a character so uh.#what gives #my post #black sails #nomi liveblogs #also??? the offhand mention of silver working on a slave trade merchant ship????#was that fr or part of the repeated story #are the writers Aware or

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