Ask a US leftist what exactly they think was wrong with slavery.
Slaves were benevolently given free room and board - given all the material to make clothes or what not, by the plantation owners. They had no expenses. Everything was “free” for them.
They just didn’t have freeDOM.
When they respond with shrills concerning mistreatment, ask what makes them think people without freedom won’t be mistreated by a “benevolent” government.
Also note, being sold or treated differently by race falls under the mistreatment category.
‘Ask a US leftist what exactly they think was wrong with slavery.’
well, for starters, men, women, and children of the same family were routinely sold separately, often so far away as to never see each other again...
kind of hard to put lipstick on that pig...