

I think other people have given good answers, but something I didn’t see anyone touch on is the cultural erasure aspect of chattel slavery. A concerted effort was made by slave owners and others to erase the culture and history of the people they kidnapped and sold. Families were split, languages were suppressed and a lot of that history and cultural identity was intentionally d destroyed. That is part of why American racists hate “black people” instead of Kenyans or Ghanaians. It is both a failing of their worldview and a generations long strategy.
I am excited for the tooth regrowing tech coming up. I’ve got some awful dental work that would be much better replaced by a real tooth