User blog comment:Nerdyanimegirl225/The 3 picks/@comment-4449950-20140514055718/@comment-4829046-20140514092636

In addition to what Nick said; enslave? I thought all he did was put the already enslaved people back to work but with more comfortable conditions so they would not complain about their own illtreatment which in my book isn't enslaving as such. Sure it was for malicious purposes and he didn't want them to return to the mainland back to their families and a lot of the work was just for show but his workers did listen to him. However I do get that he might've done some abominable things, just that we haven't seen mention of what those deeds were besides maybe commands under Brain's tutelage. The Magic Council learned of him only cause of Siegrain. Overall though, Jellal would mostly have done things in the mainland which were not connected to the tower at all like sending Ultear to Galuna Island since he found it interesting.