The Jedi were fools to leave Shmi a slave on Tattooine.
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Volley2020 — 9 years ago(November 25, 2016 06:00 PM)
Padme should have travelled to Tatooine after the events of Episode I and bought Shmi from Watto, and then Shmi could have come to Naboo to live in peace.
Instead no one cares for Shmi for 10 years and they manage to catch up with her seconds before she dies it's pathetic. -
Conan-1982 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 06:00 AM)
The thing is that being a "slave" on Tatooine is not that bad, actually it's pretty sweet : they have a big house, food and water aplenty and also a lot of money to buy equipment that they can use to build your own droids that work for you (then if they are stupid and build a useless "protocol droid" that's another matter).
They have a job with what seem to be normal 9 to 5 working-hours (slaves usually work 16 hours per day until they die of exhaustion) and they are not physically or verbally abused by their masters (Watto even let little Anakin go home before regular work-hours were over, what a nice guy ! My boss never does that, and I'm supposedly working in a FREE country !).
So all in all being a slave in Tattoine is better than being a free man in our society so the Jedi didn't need to worry about anyone and didn't care about freeing the slaves: they are all pretty happy to be there.