I am highly offended by this thread & that anyone can possibly suggest that slavery is anything but WRONG, is sad.
Please don't believe otherwise. Owning other humans & forcing them to work for you "day & night" is not good or anything but BAD.

Look at the reality for newly freed African-Americans in the deep south:
1. you & your entire family (if you're lucky) are free, but you do not own the land on which you have worked all your life.
2. you do not own the home that you have lived in all your life.
3. slavery has been used as the basis for the civial war & you are now in a war-torn part of the south, where many non-slave owning whites have lost much & are seeing ex-slaves as the root of their sorrows.
4. where do you go?
5. your former master still needs workers, still owns the house where you live, still owns the land that you have worked, & offers to let you continue living there in exchange for working for him.
6. do you somehow try to return to Africa, you weren't born there, you don't know the language, you have nothing there either!

BUT NOW YOU ARE FREE - if you choose you can go, if you finish your work, you can go to the village on any day, not just Sunday! you can take a vacation, a day off, without fear of being hunted down, you won't be sold away from your family, alas, even with freedom, former slaves where still not treated like equals.

I am a born & bred white southerner, born in Mississippi & grew-up in NC, but I believe that all humans are created equally & have the right to be free. And yes, there are many underlying issues that caused the civil war, but the greatest thing that resulted was that slavery was abolished.

There is a lot more that I'd like to bring across, because I fear that some young girl will read this thread & somehow come away with the idea that slavery was not all bad, but that is wrong. Owning other people IS WRONG & no matter how good you treat slaves they are still property & not free humans!
We as women, should be the first to understand this, we have also been treated like less than equal & have had to fight for rights - & still in other countries, women can't own land, can't vote, can't marry whom they choose & are treated unfairly, unjustly & cruelly. Even in this country, women are fighting for equal pay, equal postions in governmant & corporations (think about it, has there ever been a female president or an African-Amerian one - people would rather redo the constatution to allow for Arnold Scwartzenagger to be able to run for pres, than to elect a woman). Not all women believed that women even needed the right to vote, does that mean that not having the right was not WRONG! No, it doesn't! We don't have to vote, but we are free to if we choose.