Agreed on 1. but 2. money was the primary reason for slavery. The primary justification for slavery was racism, but the reason they chose us and not Europeans was because we were highly acclimated skilled labor for the intent for which they looked to work us. Even after Native Americans showed the settlers how to plant and work the land they didn't have the experience to be able to produce the yield that they wanted.

We only count our history from slavery for some reason but before that for centuries we were running shit in agriculture, science, astrology, and on and on all over the continent. They ran up in some areas that didn't have the military prowess of larger African areas and basically snatched us up to come do their dirty work, and it made them the #1 power on the world. People need to see the settlers as the opportunists they were. America was a corporation before it was a country.