> Nothing personal or racial I don't think it's the case that there was nothing racial about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, at least in terms of justifying it

> Nothing personal or racial I don't think it's the case that there was nothing racial about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, at least in terms of justifying it to a public who would increasingly be inclined to think that society can tell people not to keep slaves. Though I would tend to agree that slavery was never only about race, not before the trans-Atlantic trade, and not during.