thanks for pointing that out. i was not aware of that. can’t say I’m surprised
that’s a perfectly legitimate/moral/strategic response to a difficult human situation....
I read it in a very old book, in which remembrances of people from the household, including former slaves, were documented. It was an open secret ‘in the neighborhood’.
If you can find a good University library - one which still has actual *books* - you can read things that were written back when biographers and historians still cared about Truth, instead of ‘political correctness’.