If not for slavery, the African American population that enjoys 1st world comforts in the USA today would be languishing in some underdeveloped African country. Even for the time, slaves who were not in the USA might just have been slaves in Africa or Arabia.
To prove that slavery was categorically bad for African Americans, we need to prove via counterfactual that a better possibility could exist. I've never seen anyone prove that.
If not for slavery, the African American population that enjoys 1st world comforts in the USA today would be languishing in some underdeveloped African country. Even for the time, slaves who were not in the USA might just have been slaves in Africa or Arabia.
To prove that slavery was categorically bad for African Americans, we need to prove via counterfactual that a better possibility could exist. I've never seen anyone prove that.