I said these exact things (though not as gracefully) to my coworkers who read the show blurb aloud. The blurb, put out by HBO, failed to mention "slaves" as characters in the show…

When the VHS box set was re-released with the Leonard Maltin interview at the beginning of each, my parents brought it home. I was in second grade. They stretched it out by showing one movie each Saturday until we made it all the way through. They wanted me to have some semblance of their suffering waiting years…