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their personal benefit... personal?? it's not like slaves could quit, and find another job. if they developed skills, it helped them perform their forced labour, and so the benefit is all to their owner and master.
I assume he meant that benefitted them after emancipation. Or something.
Go to the Atlanta History Museum sometime, their civil war exhibit has a whole section of "were the slaves really better after being freed" shit that's pretty disgusting.
I mean, tbf, they have a point.
During slavery they were fed, protected, and housed by their masters.
After slavery, they were simply brutalized, raped, murdered, butchered without any protection whatsoever.
So yes, slavery had benefits, and protected them from the rest of the evil southern monstrous scum.
What exactly do you think masters did to "disobedient" slaves?
I'm saying freeing them didn't do that much because they were still at the mercy of the monsters.
We needed to fix the south before we left, instead we left them to suffer among the same evil that literally inspired hitler.