There is always a "benefit" for the slavemaster to own a slave.
There is always a benefit for a robber to steal something from you.
Would stealing freedom from you and your descendents be a long term benefit to you?
There is always a "benefit" for the slavemaster to own a slave.
There are also negatives for the slavemaster, housing, food, capital, chance of rebellion etc. Not saying they are big ones but they are there.
Would stealing freedom from you and your descendants be a long term benefit to you?
Now you are turning it into general benefit question, the teacher asked to list benefits and negatives not a general judgment. As an answer to your question: Quick answer says no, smart answer (especially looking at some historic cases) says: under what kind of circumstances
well see that's the argument.
screwing you over because of some imagined or promised benefit down the road.
given a cynical look at political promises, etc, I expect that most people would expect no return on that "investment"
I'd say CNN at the very least used a misleading title.
The teacher should have used the term "benefits" rather then positive. But asking students to list positives and negatives is a good thing imo. Of course slavery is a bad phenomenon but also very common in mankind's entire history regardless of skincolor. If there where no "positive"/benefit sides it would never have existed.