Many people think that slavery is slavery. In fact there are many g
forms of slavery. While they share in common that one group profits from the free, enforced labor of another group, the US built CHATTEL slavery deeply into abd throughout its legal system, economy, culture, education system.... etcetc into all aspects of life.

A very good documentary contains a lengthy passage about these differences and about the role Africans played in the slave trade: 500 Years Later, http://www.500yearslater.com/

Slavery itself (and its many legacies), as practiced over time in its many forms, is far more complex than the casual bandying about of one single word. Using that word simplistically, from a view based on our limited understanding of it from today's cultural mindsets, just doesn't have much relationship to reality.

Those mindsets have grown with steady infusions of half-truths and misdirections. There is a system defending itself from view. White people are conditioned to divide up against one another through these reactive, accusatory arguments when really, if we instead simply allowed our hearts to feel all the horror of what we're discussing here, we'd band together to stop it.

Do we all want to stop it?