If you read all I posted, you'll see that IN THE 1700'S, wrong as we now know it is, it WAS a customary practice around the world, that obviously gradually evolved into the abomination of slavery.
This is a magnificent country that evolved over 200+ years. As a society endures, folks hopefully become educated and civilized. Women were treated as chattel at one time here, too .. abusive child labor was common, as well. Those issues set you off, too ?
“This is a magnificent country that evolved over 200+ years. As a society endures, folks hopefully become educated and civilized.”
Societies do not evolve over time where a certain treatment of a class of people at some point becomes no longer ethical. Instead, practices such as slavery are an abomination today just like they were an abomination in 1860 and just as it was in 1750.
And if you are to believe that societies evolve, you must be willing to accept that societal treatment of certain classes of people today may be in the future deemed unethical.
I am not willing to accept that premise.