The real reason Americans owned slaves was not just financial.
To understand America\'s struggles with race relations, we must take an uncensored l.
The startling truth is that many were otherwise admirable.
Looking back, many of us find it more comfortable to view slave owners as evil or sociopathic.
For the first two centuries of American history, starting with the colonists, slavery was a part of the social, economic, and governmental order.
They did it because they liked it.
The real reason Americans owned slaves was not just financial