A useful review of the concepts that framed slavery in this country as it was born and grew from settlers to colonists to a nation, at about the same time that "civilization", for all of its many horrors, started to put its foot down to say human ownership is bad. Reading about the Comanche and the Navaho in the last few years, I was introduced to the ubiquity of slavery in pre-civilized humanity - it was a given. And, it might be regarded by some as a good thing, since those not enslaved were murdered.
Civilization upped the ante by making it possible for tribes to profit by first capturing, then selling their competing tribesmen and women (and children). Fortunately for all of us, civilization also made the world a place of such profit and excess that it could afford to eliminate human ownership.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/20/the-historical-record-shows-america-was-founded-against-racism-not-to-promote-it/
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