@Xinxy It is incredibly ignorant and disrespectful of you to say "it's a bl story" like it's an excuse to write about whatever you want. Stories, usually, have depictions of REAL human beings. Not BASED on human beings, but involves them. Romanticizing any sort of relationship with a slave is not okay because these were REAL people who went through very real experiences. And the fact that this author has chosen THIS specific time period as a setting in a, presumably romantic story, one so harmful in US history is disrespectful in of itself. And it's important that we readers acknowledge this and we firmly stand against stories like this so that it doesn't happen again.
I haven't had the pleasure of reading other works from this author, I'm sure they have amazing work, but this is not one of them no matter how you look at it.
I don't want you to think that I'm calling you a bad person for being ignorant. But i WILL call you a bad person if you willingly choose to ignore this authors problematic choice of setting and sit there defending it.