Look, I'm sorry if what I said offended you. I'm not agruing that chattel slavery wasn't worse than indentured servitude. It was.

My point was that it's a slippery slope based on wage and labor exploitation.

You're wrong about the whippings though. Indentured servants were whipped. There are lithographs showing white servants, Irish being stripped and whipped. Even Benjamin Franklin was whipped when he was indentured by his brother. That's actually why he ran away from his indenture, he felt his brother was being unfairly harsh, taking out his grievance that Benjamin was their father's favorite. He wrote about it in his autobiography.

There are stories of German indentured servants being illegally kept in indenture beyind their contracted time and being abused and even murdered as well.

Many believe that what was allowed to happen to indentured servants paved the way for the horrors of chattel slavery. You can also track increasingly harsh and horrific treatment of chattel slaves through the years.

My ultimate point was about the slippery slope of exploitation and that you see the same things pop up under systems of exploitation throughout time and across the globe. And that once you start down that path of deciding whether or not laborers deserve fair and humane treatment, whether or not they deserve to be xompendates in a manner that they will have a quality life, and who's going to be pressed into forced labor, mistreatment and abuse will continue, become more widespread, and more severe until it is checked by revolt or economic collapse. And the whole economic system is both responsible and culpable; nobody owns or keeps forced labor in any of it's iterations without it being economically advantageous in some manner to do so.