JQPublic1
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And they have hated blacks ever since because black slaves took their jobs.Well done.....pointing out that slaves really didn't have it all that bad. Next up: "They should have been grateful".Slavery was probably the worst idea ever, because now we're stuck with these people.
So slavery was a "bad idea" - not because it was an injustice of epic proportions that treated hundreds of thousands of human beings as animals, but because now you're stuck having to coexist alongside black people.
The population of Black slaves in the U.S.A actually grew faster than that of all of Europe, including industrial age Britain, which really puts into question how poorly they truly had it.
I'd argue that many European peasants had it worse, they had to fend for themselves, and many starved to death, as opposed to Black slaves who were kept fed.
I'm sure many starving Irish during the Irish Potato Famine were envious of fed Black slaves.
Actually many Irish even chose temporary slavery over famine, and became Indentured Servants by their own choice.