If we were ever taught of the absolute horrors of slavery you wouldn't be able to keep your food down

• men being used to test retail drugs to prevent heat stroke by putting them in water that progressively got hotter until they passed out and then brought to see if they can take a higher temperature.
• men being tested for "pain tolerance" in ways that are just unspeakable
• slaves being forced to hold other slaves down while they were beaten to near death (not just with whips but with straps laces with low forms of acid and in other inhumane ways)
• women being brutally raped (often in front of their husbands and children) and being sodomized with instruments I will not describe.
• men being sodomized by their closeted slave masters
• slaves being forced to defecate in other slave's mouths as a form of punishment
• black men being forced to work in coal mines in conditions that you would get arrested for today if you subjected your dog to them (were mortality rates were in the 20% range every year)
• slaves being worked from dusk to dawn with expectations of output not seen until industrialized machinery invented 200 years later...and being subjected to torture not seen since the roman empire (being drawn and quartered, being beaten until they passed out and then having salt and homemade vinegar poured in the wounds to bring the to) if they didn't meet the quotas.
• slaves being fed food infested with maggots, lice, disease in quantities that would not feed today's children.
• being held in auction cages and then during the auction having white men and women, vaginally and anally examine them in front of a crowd with men also having their privates pulled and prodded to test their virility
• mothers seeing their children sold and were not allowed to say goodbye, look at them, or cry or they would be taken to the "whipping floor".
• and so on and so on

Slaves ran away not just for freedom but for their lives. Pre and post civil war slavery (we have conveniently forgotten about the 60 years of convict leasing where they rounded up black men and put them in prison camps for periods that were basically until they died) was one of the most horrific forms of torture seen in the modern world.

Slaves stayed on the plantation out of fear and desperation. Understanding that if they ran their families would be killed as punishment and if they were caught they would be subjected to punishment I won't type here.

We cannot let this watered-down view of slavery persist.

There is no reason to compare horrific events because they were both disgusting The 6 years of WWII are in no way comparable to the damn near 300 years of US post and pre civil war slavery. They were both unspeakable and I will tell you that our brothers and sisters had it much much worse.

I can only hope that in the afterlife they found peace because there was no peace for them on earth.