Yes. (pause.)

I brought this up and appreciate, I really do, all the responses. The guide's comments bothered me, I didn't know exactly why, but it helps to hear what people think, even if, and sometimes especially if you disagree.

Slavery and race aside, it bothers me that they are doing a general commercial, for a relatively non-existent product. If they told me they grew "good" tomatoes I'd doubt it unless I tasted them. I'm quite sure some people treated slaves better than others, and fully accept that perhaps these people did. The historical aspect doesn't get to me. If some black people fought for slavery, believing they should be slaves, or whatever, I truly do not care if they did. Or didn't. Why should I? Being black slaves doesn't make them my moral compass, I'm not sentimental about it. Do I care more about what Socrates, or the ancient slave he discussed epistomology and math with thought. Neither, I just want to make sense of it. The fact that something happened doesn't prove anything, all sorts of stupid bullshit HAPPENS... then we call it History. Different times, different mores--sure, I get that, but it doesn't address why, why now, in these different times different mores, do they want or need to put a spin on it? And even if they do want or need to, is it effective? Convincing? No. It has the opposite effect. Go to some old house with fifteen black kids, see if it makes any sense to you.