Silly me. I tend to think that owning another human being as a slave is in of and itself “mistreatment”. Just because a slave wasn’t beaten and was fed, clothed and housed to some degree or another, didn’t mean they were not mistreated by the mere fact of being treated as chattel and in a system where a husband and wife and their children could be sold off to different plantation owners, where it was a crime to teach slaves how to read and write.
Do mean it was like working for a big company or government to controls your life?
Stick to the topic. The movie was about a free man who was revered in his community for his storytelling.
Everyone in the U.S. today is participating in labor exploitation, child abuse and human trafficking through the effects of our corrupt electoral system, and our tax dollars. How about rubbing some guilt in your own face.
I hate taxes too, but how much is "too much"?
We are forced to work whether we like it or not. This is the nature of human society. Our slave masters sit in Washington DC and enjoy life at our expense. They produce nothing useful or beneficial, they simply absorb the fruits of our labor.