“You’re running to extreme examples that, yes, did occur, but were not the norm. The majority experienced no such thing. Treating them quite literally as cattle was the purview of slave traders and those large plantations that took to providing them to the traders. That was not a widespread phenomenon.”
And if that happened to you, would you feel better because it wasn’t wide spread?
No, and as you’d have discovered had you actually read any of my replies to this thread, you’d have discovered that I would hope for a more honest and less politicized treatment of the history. You prefer the standard narrative and are refusing to accept anything else. That impulse is not at all the behavior of an open and honest intellect, but it’s also not at all surprising.