And if you check history, the Muslims have been involved in slavery for 1400 years. In the US, this begs the questions, how many people are indirectly involved with slavery by having generational wealth that dates back to antebellum days? Since fewer than 5% of the Southern population owned slaves, I would doubt that a significant population of today’s Americans can trace their lineage back to that group. Most Americans of today descend from immigrants that came here after the Civil War. Slavery is, was, and always will be horribly repugnant.
You are right that a relatively small number of whites owned slaves, but that doesn’t fit the narrative so it is ignored. Here in the northeast while slavery was legal for a time it certainly didn’t form any economic backbone; that is why northerners were generally OK with ending it in their own states prior to the war.
Outside of the work requirement, I see little difference between the relationship between slaveowners and their slaves 160 years ago and taxpayers and many urban blacks today; the former have to provide every basic need for the latter, and the latter remain in an ignorant, angry, dependent state.