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Originally Posted by ShrunkenNed

I've said it once and I'll say it again: Nobody in this movie was a slave! Slavery was abolished after the civil war. People originally protesting the movie did not get this, and obviously people now don't either. UNCLE REMUS WAS NOT A SLAVE, nor was anyone else in the movie. They were free. The contreversy comes from the black stereotypes that were portrayed, including African -Americans working on a plantation. But they were portrayed as willing workers not, slaves.

I know that he wasn't a slave. I am just repeating what the NAACP said about the movie when it was released! They said it was an 'idyllic slave-master relationship', which is why they condemned the film. The problem is that people do not do any research on the subject. They look at the movie and say, oh look, he is a slave. They have no knowledge about the setting of the Uncle Remus stories. I am just going to leave it at that.