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Uh, again, no. At least in the United States, there was the status quo which is not a matter of truth or falsehood, and then there were arguments. Slavery was

Uh, again, no. At least in the United States, there was the status quo which is not a matter of truth or falsehood, and then there were arguments. Slavery was always a matter of debate, and the South had lots of "good" reasons for the practice, and it was never "because everybody's doing it." That's a straw man, not that it matters.

sorbits 17y ago
And your argumentation falls under the Amazing Familiarity :) Twelve million Africans were shipped to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries (according to Wikipedia), I doubt any of us know how every single person involved justified this enterprise.