Not a matter of "imposing sensibilities".  Right and wrong wasn't one thing in 1860 and another now.  A-a-and slaveholders were bankrupt?  Went a little hungry now and again?  That scene with Scarlet O'hara just before she whipped her servant while declaring she'd never go hungry again bring tears to your eyes, did it?  Allow me to get out my harmonica and play you some "white man's blues".

Sorry, don't look for "understanding" here.  My children and grandchildren aren't farm animals.