In Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, a German bounty hunter buys and frees a slave named Django who he trains to be his deputy. Together, they embark on a dangerous journey to rescue Django's wife from a brutal plantation owner.
A freed slave seeks revenge on a plantation owner.
Tarantino films Jamie Foxx's freed slave bounty hunter in 1858 Mississippi. The film is the genre using its tropes to indict the country the genre lied about.