Ethics In Slavery Vs Today

Morality and ethics are human constructs that aren’t absolute and constantly evolving. Ethics are rules of conduct and standards provided by culture and society at large at a particular point of time whereas morals are personal principles, it’s personal knowledge that one has gained individually. If one’s ethics are derived from the observing of the social construct of the time period in which it was a common practice, then, ultimately, yes, slavery was ethical. But from a moral vantage point it was not. It is crucial to remember that people in the past lived differently with different values than today.