I understand your sentiment, but that statement is historically incorrect. The concept of race-driven slavery wasn't invented in America, or developed in America. I'd recommend using Medium to search "Doctrine of Discovery." The concept of race as skin color was a product of Catholocism's Papacy in the 1400s, though the stirrings of it go back into the 1300s. Transatlantic slave trade to South America was driven by Spain, Portugal, and England through the entirety of the 1500s, and dwarfed the North American version that didn't begin until the 1600s. (1619, VA) Of the estimated 12 million human beings taken from Africa, only 388,000 were brought to North America after 1619. Race as skin color was used to hide the religious nature of colonialism, slavery, and oppression. The central role of the Catholic Church in developing the concept of "black" vs. "white" is well documented. The Church was well versed in the ways of slavery as the 1,000 years of the Dark Ages were driven by a monarchical religious feudal model that was a crucible of enslavement and control of the land. If you study that a bit, it may affect the way you see the issue. The belief that race was a product of America is a way of shielding the Church from its ambitions of global dominance...a ploy that America has been willing to accept.