The greatest beneficiaries of slavery are the descendants of slaves. The only reason they were ever even born was because slavery brought their ancestors together to procreate. Otherwise those people almost certainly never would have met each other to creat genetically unique offspring. I am not saying slavery was a good thing or that we should be proud of it but we need to understand that sometimes even bad circumstances can create good for some people. Slavery directly led to the descendants of slaves receiving the most valuable thing in the world…..life.
"Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!" - Muhammad Ali