Biggest Benefits Slaves Got From Slavery

A whole book written about them! Wow!

Sometimes education is painful, but ultimately we’re all the better for it.

No amount of personal freedom beats knowing that you did your best.

What? Not yet? Jesus Christ.

Although it wasn’t available for several hundred years, the descendants of Black slaves in the Americas now get the privilege of using this app to identify songs in bars and cafés.

From a young age, enslaved woman Sally Hemmings got the enviable privilege of coerced intercourse with one of America’s Founding Fathers.

Any day now, probably.

What better boon for being forced to work than to have their struggles accurately chronicled on some occasions.

Slaves born to slaves were automatically given a huge leg up when it came time to enter into perpetual forced labor.

The majority of plantations held a trivia night once a week that included free beer and hot dogs.

Throughout the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, Africans got to exchange their traditional tribal names and heritage for fun white people surnames.

Most Americans are unaware that being a slave was one of the highest-paying jobs in U.S. history.

Being sold off to a different plantation hundreds of miles away was a great way for slaves to get pesky Mom and Dad off their backs.

From the potential of being killed for trying to escape to being assaulted at any moment by an angry master, slaves got to experience that incredible rush from living life on the edge.

Whether sleeping, eating, working, or talking to one another, slaves were given a network of overseers to make sure they were regularly whipped and didn’t escape.

A nightmarish period of violence for Black people that the vast majority of slaves were able to avoid.

While they were enslaved, slaves were provided exclusive access to some of the biggest cotton fields in the United States.

Most people have no idea how much they would cost if they were sold at a human market, but slaves were lucky enough to get the opportunity to know exactly where they stood.

While so many people get bogged down in the complicated and expensive American school system, slaves got the opportunity to start on their dream job from day one.

Slaves were fortunate enough to get a front row seat to see some of the most powerful and influential businessmen in America while getting beaten and whipped during their violent diatribes.

A luxury that billions of people still enjoy to this day.

Slaves received unlimited suffering at no extra charge.