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But very few people are going to buy slaves to then let their kids be free. It's a bad investment. So the real choice is between what happened and not buying them at all and letting them starve/be cannibalized in Africa. Frankly, I don't agree with slavery in America either. They should have left the blacks in Africa. Then we wouldn't have so many problems in the USA today.Isn't that a false dilemma? They were enslaved by blacks, then BOUGHT by whites. So whether Americans did what they did or not, it seems as though those blacks would either be slaves in Africa or dead.
Yes but the US had a different method of getting slaves. The overwhelming majority (90+%) of slaves in the US were bred here. So the overwhelming majority were not enslaved by blacks but by whites.
As for it making their life better, possibly. But I don't call that good in any way. Sure by about every metric, people in Norway are happier than in the US. That doesn't make me an agent of good if I grab your daughter, steal her off to Norway, and rape a family out of her then let her great great grandkids free.