Comment by bluGill

There were lots of different slaves, with lots of different treatment. You cannot count a few examples and extrapolate to all slaves.

>How does an ex-slave treat slavery "fairly"? He lived that shit, he knows how despicable it is.

He can exaggerate how bad it was for one thing. It is well known that people's memories are not exact to what happened, and it is likely he would remember dramatic incidents and not the day to day reality.

Try reading "uncle tom's Cabin" - a book that was written with the intent to start the civil war to end slavery. Despite that intent to presents a picture of slavery that was in general much nicer for the slave owners.

Don't take anything of the above as statement that slavery was good. Only that it wasn't in general as bad as what you see on TV.