Nonsense. It's equivalent to a Victorian child tin miner saying to the slave that he's also had a hard life. The set of people who actually owned slaves was a

Nonsense. It's equivalent to a Victorian child tin miner saying to the slave that he's also had a hard life. The set of people who actually owned slaves was always a tiny minority who were only able to own slaves because they were wealthier and more powerful than the vast majority of people alive in their own time. This is not to say that the child tin miner had a worse life than the slave, but they clearly both have more interests in common than either of them do with the slave owner.