When you structure your statement the way you did, yeah.
Are you about to defend the Domingian slavers now too?
No. I simply pointed out what Southerners had realized would probably happen to them in a slave revolt. Which they knew before Nat Turner tried it.
Slavery itself was mass murder.
No, it wasn't. Mass murder was mass murder.
Slavery was brutal in the American South as well and nothing you have shown me contradicts that reality. Why would the Slavers have organized their entire society to prevent slave revolts if it were not brutality in its essential core?
It was hard rock no doubt, but not uniformly. Among field hands it was doubtless moreso -- and even in town it still could be, as the Manhattan slave cemetery excavations have shown. Slaves' bones found there bore marks of hard, physical labor and overwork, just like slaves' bones from Herculaneum did. Slavery was very often a life of hard work.
Abolishing it still wasn't worth nearly a million dead and major violence to the Constitution and the future of civil liberties.
Look at all the infringements of government on the People since the Civil War, and then deny that the Civil War precipitated them by stoking the Government -- if you can. The words will die in your throat.
Baloney.
For each slave which made it to this continent two died in the attempt to get him here. That produced a holocaust which rivals Hitler's. Mass Murder.
Americans of this day and age have far more freedoms than did any of their ancestors, except possibly the slavers. There is no doubt about this and ideological silliness doesn't change it. Nor does a yearning for a world which never existed. To claim otherwise is just another demonstration of ideology try to trump reality.