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They were limited by the ignorance of their time. …….Or whatever Tony Starks dad said.
Yeah. That's bull shit. I don't know why people like to pretend that there were not massive amounts of the population that saw slavery as immoral and cruel.
Hell, they literally had to invent "whiteness and blackness" as racial constructs to justify continuing to enslave the African slaves that converted to Christianity. Suddenly their rules in place about not enslaving other Christians needed a workaround written into them.
These were not "moral for their time" people in any sense of the word.
Edit: I don't know if you were actually making this point or just saying that quote. So sorry if this came out hostile.
That move is a lot older than the colonisation of Americas. There's a reason why westerners don't consider Slavs white, and it's connected to the etymology of the word "slave".