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you can't understand because your ancestors were not slaves.

Ah, but they were. My family name means 'shepherd' in the original and my ancestors were serfs tied by law to the land they worked. Slaves to the feudal lord. In fact, in the homeland of my ancestors, the Bubonic Plague swept through and required repopulation three times (forced repatriation, like what was done with the reservations for American aborigines). Taking someone from land to which he was bound by law and forcing him to move to another land to which he was bound by law is slavery.

That practice didn't end until . . . . 1945. My own predecessors escaped before then - mostly because the lock to the land was broken when they were needed to feed the labor demands of the industrial revolution.

So yes, I do know what it was like. (And I know you understand the fallacy of Jackson's diatribes as well.)