I don't entirely disagree with you.  Maybe I should have said "real".    In the moment. I have seen him in a couple of candid shots with a grandchild or two so that behavior is still different from his larger beliefs and political approach.   Remember, male slave owners often were very fond of some of the women with whom they fathered children and some were fond of their offspring from these arrangements.   Very few treated these people as equals or freed them voluntarily.