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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"

Not just with the part of your brain that intellectually knows the "right" things about slaves, or black people, or etc.,

Famous literary critics teach us to ask "what was the writer trying to do for him/herself by writing this work?"

My point is that in writing you can't escape leaning into a narrative that comports with your worldview.

or you can try, but you'll probably make a shitty work of art because you'll be trying to write just with your prefrontal cortex, lol.