User blog comment:Macaco99/PE PROPOSAL: Simon Legree/@comment-1705775-20191217143449

he is the embodiment of the true brutally of the slave trade and how slavers grew increasingly random in the use of violence and murder to the point it was clear they were killing simply out of hatred and fear than actually trying to keep a slave population (since if your slaves are regularly brutalized they will not work and you (as a slaver) would lose profit) : the senseless cruelty of men like this contributed greatly to others finally seeing it for what it truly was - genocidal hatred.. which helped end the trade.

while the story is controversial it is actually the passive nature of the protagonist that hits home further how unjustified everything was, he wasn't a rebel and was killed simply because he was seen as "dangerous" - a reminder that not even those who tried to avoid confrontation with the "masters" were secured survival.. that is a very primal kind of evil.. not just to kill but also murder those who do nothing, absolutely nothing, to harm you and indeed who had no means to do so even if they did.. no different from killing children or small animals.. excessive, unjustified and self-destroying (because no one other than other sadists will tolerate that level of blatant cruelty, even people of the time-period who rejected equal rights often found acts like those described in the book as wrong.).