Скачать или смотреть The Slave Owner Who Documented His Own Cruelty

Thomas B. Chaplin wasn’t a general, a politician, or a distant historical symbol. He was a Southern enslaver who left behind detailed personal records of plantation life in the antebellum United States. Those writings offer a rare, disturbing look into how slavery actually functioned on the ground — discipline, punishment, control, and the everyday violence required to keep it running.

This documentary breaks down who Thomas B. Chaplin was, how he managed enslaved people, and why his own words matter today. Not through mythology or abstraction, but through documentation. What he recorded exposes the reality behind plantation slavery — not as an institution, but as a system enforced daily by men like him.

This is not a story of redemption or complexity. It’s a record of power, ownership, and cruelty — preserved in ink by the enslaver himself.