Lol...my comments were kind of tongue in cheek. I grew up in a very Southern focused family. I think back from time to time about stories of life on the plantations.
One in Louisiana and one in Elora TN. There were endearing stories of mammies caring for the children. Stories of freed slaves not wanting to leave the plantations after the war.
This was their home. Where they worked, raised the kids, schooled the kids.
Stories of cruelty were not passed down through our family.
Nor through mine, though my mother's family were among the few Republicans in a state dominated by Southern Democrats, and they had plenty to say about dishonest Democrat politicians.
My mother's people were especially outraged at Democrats who every election day raised up the dead from their graveyards just long enough to vote Democrat and then put them back in their boxes until the next election day!
Yes, that was considered humorous in her family! ;-)