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I don't. But I know two white guys are in charge, and I know in TV writers rooms, unless you're VERY intentional and careful...

Showrunner's POV almost always prevails.

Okay cool. So. There are a lot of nuances that you have to pay attention to when you're telling a historical story for a mass audience.

For something like slavery, you want to show the brutality of slavery, but you don't want to make slaves seem like they had no will at all.

You want to show that there were free black people, but you don't want to make it seem like being black was fine and dandy.

you want to show that it sucks to be poor and white at the time, but not to the point that you excuse fighting for slavery.

As a writer, I know that writing is an activity that involves a lot of intuition and subconscious and "thinking with your whole brain"