I agree, I could have worded that better. I inadvertently triggered some folks.

My point was that the things we saw in chattel slavery, we saw in all forms of forced labor around the world and across time. Not that all those other forms of slavery were as harsh or severe as chattel slavery where you got ALL the things and attached to an identity factor--skin color.

The main point I was trying to make is about how many Northerners in America think themselves excluded from racism and that slavery because they weren't the slave holders. But that's not true. The choice of whether or not a society enters into any form of forced labor is an economic one and a supremacy one. If it exists within a society, it is upheld by that entire society,l by their participation in the economics that sustains it, not just the slave holders.

Final point, was that any time you get into justifying any form of forced labor, you're on a slippery slope. A very slippery slope, as labor exploitation tends to increase over time as long as chasing ever increasing profits reigns supreme.