“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” - Abraham Lincoln, March 1865
Doesn’t refute my point a bit. The truth is what it is. Slavery to America was a better option than certain death at the hands of those who captured you and no longer had a need to have you around. Slavery to America morphed into freedom. The rest will always be a product of these two events.
Good quote.
Slavery ended almost a century and a half ago.
Theoretically this may just be an academic question of whether blacks in America are better off today having been enslaved centuries ago. Politically, it's a third-rail issue -- touch it and you're dead.
Any white person in politics defending slavery today is making a major mistake for no good reason.
For conservatives who value individual freedom, arguing for the benefits of even benevolent slavery is foolish. As conservatives, we ought to know that the poorest and most wretched freeman is in a better condition than the most pampered house slave.
Freedom is worth fighting for.