I would rather have been a slave than a factory worker because slaves get provided medical care, live about 10 times longer, and get provided food and shelter meanwhile, factory workers live in an overcrowded environment, if injured or ill the factory workers get fired, and low pay and little food. I would much rather be a slave because slaves may not be with their families but they do get treated fairly well mainly because you would be the owner's property and they don't want to damage you. Also some families were kinder than others because the owners allowed slaves to buy their freedom or the family members would buy out of slavery. Unlike the factory workers, the factory workers would try and threaten people that they were going to quit
