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You're kidding right? Do you even know the definition of "slave"?

Just to jump in....Oh puhleese....slaves were bought and sold in the Americas...they were not taken from military conquest where a slave held no value....quite a few slaves had a decent life....the majority of slave owners made sure their slaves were healthy and stayed healthy....who would pay good money for a slave and then treat them like S*&T so you lost money on your investment....you must be watching to much TV or reading (taught) revisionists history....sometimes slave owners had to be cruel...after all...the slave was a monetary investment...and just so I can make a barb on the N.O. disaster...I'm pretty sure that 90% of the blacks that they showed on TV were not earning a paycheck...they were receiving a paycheck...but I seriously doubt earning a paycheck.....

"sometimes slave owners had to be cruel..."

That's why they are burning in Hell now. Try as you might you'll never make me, a true American patriot, believe that slavery is a virtuous, respectful, saintly business. So please, continue to wave your Confederate flag and I'll wave mine, the American one.

M'kay gotta jump in here.

Most people seem to have missed the point about spending 3K for a slave just to kill them.

My aunt's family were slave owners in Alabama during the Civil War. Had a town named after them and all that.

At the end of the war when the slaves were freed, the family moved to Texas. The slaves went with the family because they had nowhere else to go. They were given land by the family in Texas and still worked for them.

My aunt said that she had been told about it because as a young girl she always remembered an elderly black man being at all the gatherings. He treated her like his one of his grandkids. The comment was made once by him... "I have black children and white children, you one of my white ones". She said she never gave it much thought until later.

Then later, her mother explained the workings of it all. That this man had been born during the trek from Alabama to Texas. Since they owned the slaves they were responsible for them. Food, clothes, housing the works. When the slave was too old or unable to work the family had a moral obligation to care for them until their natural death.

This particular man in his later years didn't want to live with his children so he went to live with my aunt's relatives, his white children, as it were. Apparently my aunt's grandfather was something of a harda$$ and the son of the slave (who worked for him for a wage) was the buffer between the grandfather and his sons.

Hope that's not too confusing.

The other thing that people, particularly shrieking liberal people, tend to forget is that most people were too poor to own slaves. My aunt tells this MUCH better.