It doesn't really work to refer to the Declaration of Independence when you're talking to a black man. Charles Dalton's ancestors were excluded. They were property, with no unalienable rights. No right to liberty, no right to pursue happiness, not even a right to life.

You're saying the Constitution doesn't say anything about providing housing. True, but things change. We have a huge population now, with no more 40 acres and a mule available. Wealth is concentrated at the top, and poor people have no place to go. Taxing wealthy people is not a form of slavery. Only slavery is slavery.