Oh and I'm sure the literal chattel of slavery described in the Bible is not what it says it is. Say you don't know how to read without saying you don't know how to read. Pretty much the only thing illegal was knocking out eyes and teeth and beating them so bad that they die immediately. That's it, everything else is fair game, beating them so bad that they're bedridden for 3 days, got approved. They're your property after all.

Your blithe dismissal of the evidence in front of your face is not an argument and says an awful lot more about you than me. Nice try.