Really? There isn't? Then tell me why most farmers no longer own and use a common mule then? There is my answer on the matter. It is a liability because automation would have made it unprofitable and a monetary liability to own. The same way slavery died in Pre-Civil War north. As for the company store I mentioned? Most communities hit by this were white actually. Just your run of the mill Immigrant workers at first like the Irish etc. I'm old enough to remember seeing Coal Towns. Strip Mining and mining automation made company store Coal Towns a liability.
I hate to bust you're bubble on slavery as related to The Bible but it is allowed and GOD himself sent nations into it as judgment and to temper the people to his needs. There is also a very strict order GOD handed concerning the conduct of slaves and slave owners. The owners could not be tyrants.
I think all men should strive to be free. Personally I would never had wanted the responsibility of owning slaves. But the realities are slavery usually advanced the people enslaved due to adversity. No adversity? No growth. No Adversity? No God dependence. No Adversity? No tempering.
The best example of slavery was with the Jewish people aka the tribes of Israel. The wonders of Egypt is a testimony to their craft, knowledge, engineering, determination, and labor, not Egypt's. Just the same many of our nations inventors were black. They can be proud of their accomplishments and forefathers labor. But public education and Political Correctness teaches them to be otherwise.
I did speak up for the CSA. It had some of the most brilliant military leaders and planners the world has known. Many got no or very little recognition in history because or super leader status of mythical great leaders like Braxton Bragg over shadowed them. A few however did stand out like Nathan Bedford Forrest a man who's Battlefield strategies are still studied. In short the Union nearly lost the war. The CSA like it or not was far more in line with founders intent of what our government should be than Lincoln's Union.
Farmers no longer use a mule. So?
Slaves were often skilled labor rented out.
Let’s see if your example holds out to real world comparison:
So, why do people use illegal labor? It’s cheaper because you don’t pay benefits. Imagine modern workers that cost nothing but clothes and food. Would most of the meat packing plants now be located in the CSA? Would slavery have faded out? No, there was still money in it and if it magically appeared today it would be profitable.
Most of our goods are made in China. Why is that? Low labor costs. They pay the workers next to nothing.
Imagine factories throughout the South run by slave labor turning out cars, refrigerators, television sets with no labor costs.
You wouldn’t see “Made in China”, You would see “Made in the CSA”
Your argument fails.
So, with the Biblical defense, how many would you own?