it is unfair to judge the past with today’s morality and social acumen... just as those in the past had done to those they thought were of lower status.
judging the enslaved through the tainted scope of superiority as those who they enslaved as less than human, today’s moral judgement unfairly pictures those people in the past as evil and inhumane, when they were just living as life was shown to be.
placing a moral equiveillance on past practices is just as bad as what was practiced in the past; and it would have continued without the foresight of those sought change, not by condemning those in the past, but seeing what the future could be.
Today's "morality and social acumen" is decidedly inferior to that of 250 years ago. 250 years ago, they knew that men were men, that women were women, that sodomy was an abomination, that marriage was a covenant between one man and one woman, that government existed to serve the people, that killing babies was wrong, that erasing history was stupid and evil, that we are all answerable to God Almighty ... by those standards of morality and society, today's culture stands judged and condemned, and rightly so.