Like I said, powerfully ignorant. You were a virtual slave when you were a child. Other people told you what you had to do, and what you could not do. If you disobeyed you were punished. But somehow kids find a way to be happy, make their own friends, etc.
My guess is that a third of the world's population, given the opportunity, would trade their current existence for that of a slave at Monticello.
I guess you can live in your imaginary world if you wish, but you might have a look at Fremantle's Three Months in the Southern States. Don't know who Fremantle was? That's because you never went beyond the cr@p we were all taught in high school.
ML/NJ
You do know what happened to the slaves at Monticello, right? Nine of them were freed--the Hemmings family mainly. The remaining 130 were auctioned off to the highest bidder on the Monticello lawn.