Comment: My own family began in the USA as indentured slaves

They were freed after their service was completed 35 years.

On my Mother's side, her Father arrived in the USA from Sweden and no sooner did he touch land, when he was drafted and put on a ship to fight in the Civil war.

Are we not slaves to the corporate machine under the IRS?

As the gentleman in the film tells you, many slaves who were freed remained on the plantations. I'm sure life was brutal and miserable for many, but I am also sure, and KNOW that many slaves were LOVED, respected, treated very well, given shares of the crops and even the opportunity to own land.

That is the history that doesn't get told much, however, slavery was part of life, had been from the time men could remember, so many accepted their place, and did their best, and truely, many were LOVED, HIGHLY RESPECTED, and made free, not to starve, but with 40 acres and a mule and more to thrive.

Many slaves went North and found they were unwanted, no work, no home, no community.. they were left to starve, and killed for coming to areas that didn't want them. That's a fact.