YMMV / La Esclava Blanca

• Anvilicious: The show is NOT subtle about how awful slavery was as an institution.
• Complete Monster:
  • Nicolás Parreño is a living embodiment of everything wrong with slavery. After losing a cargo of slaves, Nicolás engineers the deaths of Don Domingo Quintero and his wife in a fire before framing their slaves in order to kill any talk of reform, as well as ordering the death of their infant daughter Victoria when he learns that she survived. Years later, Nicolás would help a group of landowners opposed to abolition murder free blacks and slaves on the verge of gaining freedom, harshly punishing his son Miguel when he manages to get one of the conspirators punished in a court of law. When Nicolás discovers that Victoria survived his attempt to kill her and has in fact married Nicolás under a fake name, he rapes her, leaving her alive out of twisted obsession and a desire to make her watch her lover Miguel die. When Miguel counters Nicolás's treachery by trying to hold his mother hostage, Nicolás orders his men to shoot despite knowing his mother is in the line of fire before trying to kill Miguel, any good qualities he had long gone.
  • Capitán Francisco Granados of the Colombian Army is a violent domestic abuser. After publicly whipping one of his slaves to death for rebelling against the system, Granados joins a conspiracy of landowners that murders free blacks and slaves on the verge of gaining their freedom, offering up two of his own slaves and murdering a fellow member when the man becomes a liability. Angered by the slaves' increasing defiance, Granados violently beats his wife to the point that she's bedridden for undermining his authority. Granados also arranges the murder of the sister of a lawyer helping the slaves, planning to take his wife with him when he leaves despite knowing that her injured state means it's unlikely she'll survive the journey. Deteriorating even further when Miguel and his friends torture him and help his wife escape, Granados learns of the slaves' attempt to break out and decides to ambush them, causing a vicious massacre that claims the lives of many slaves before being put down himself. Despite considering himself a gentleman, Granados proved to be far more of a savage than the slaves he hated.
• Jerkass Woobie: Adela's not a nice person, but it's also clear that she's a deeply lonely and miserable person and she's clearly devastated as she watches her son go off the deep end.
• Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Miguel, despite having been given the opportunity to escape and start a new life, returns to Santa Marta and publicly accuses Jaime Lopez of not only trying to kill him, but of torturing and murdering another slave. He's well aware that the odds are slim but he's unwilling to let Jaime get away with it, and against all odds he actually wins the case by getting Jaime so enraged that he lashes out and admits his guilt on the stand. Even better, the fact that Miguel was able to get a white landowner punished for murdering a slave inspires the other slaves to start showing defiance, eventually leading to a full blown revolution.