The slave trade combines numerous things that buy them lves would be on your top ten horrible list, it's a cornicopia of atrocities. The slaves who get to see their children sold away from them, or their spouse, or their parents, well, for some people, you'd rather be dead, wouldn't you? And there was nothing, we should point out, to prevent this incident, this type of incident, from happening over and over again during the course of a slave's lifetime.