Slavery was not expedient. It's hard to subjugate masses of people. Morality has only ever held sway to the extent it's convenient. Why is the US not a British

Slavery was not expedient. It's hard to subjugate masses of people. Morality has only ever held sway to the extent it's convenient. Why is the US not a British colony? The Atlantic Ocean. The colonials got feisty, and it became more trouble than it was worth to keep them under heel. I'm surprised this is not more readily apparent to people. Justice is a fiction. The Republican form of government has helped create stable governments, and acknowledges the inherent FORCE the govererned people can bring to bear against those in power if the government doesn't operate at least somewhat in their interest. Again, morality as popularly conceived has nothing to do with it. It has more to do with the propensity of kings to end up with their heads chopped off. It always boils down to the sword. If animals could organize and rip out faces off for eating them, society would suddenly have a great moral revelation that eating animals is wrong.