That’s not the point I was getting at. The point was that at that time in the world, slavery was the norm. It wasn’t a pure “let’s enslave all the African because of their skin color” like it’s portrayed in most educational standards. Slavery was the norm if you could afford to own one. It didn’t matter if you were a colonist, free African American, Native American, English citizen, African, or Middle Easterner. The only reason there weren’t more African slave owners than what there were is due to the fact that there were less blacks able to own them. Slavery in the US took people who were already slaves, or POWs that would have been otherwise killed and used them as a commodity. While that doesn’t make it any better, because enslavement of anyone is morally apprehensible and one of the darkest aspects of all civilization, it’s still important to realize the context in which it was used in the world when talking about it. There are more slaves today still than any point in time.