I'm hardly trivialising slavery using it as an analogy. People use the term every day: "he's a slave driver"; "I'm a slave to this project"...etc etc.
Stop being a drama queen.
May I draw your attention to the error made by Mr David Clement in the article above, where he erroneously uses the word "hung", when the correct term here should be "hanged".
Chrismpw, North Wiltshire