Storey Concpet: Reluctant Dom

[Master13]

I'm struggling with the concept of a reluctant slave owner in a society where slavery is accepted. Even the great Greek philosophers never had a problem with slavery and Socrates even justified it. It was conflicting values of a much later era where people in the west started to object to slavery and that a mere 250-200 years ago. In fact slavery in the US has been abolished for less than 150 years.

I know I know its only fiction but one has to create a believable world for the reader to get lost in a story.

1. There are always people with views that differ greatly from the norm.
2. If slave holding societies never produced people who were opposed to it, it would still be an accepted practice today.
3. It is just fantasy. One of the main reasons for setting a story in a fictional world, is so that you arn't limited to real world history and culture