That's not too far off the survellience state. Americans want America to be the best in the world at everything, and that takes money and power. Slave owners had plenty of both.

The reprehensible institution that it was, I cannot fathom a way our country could have grown so quickly and so successfully without coerced labor, and, for the native Americans, theft of land. We were in a lot of debt following the revolutionary war. It would have been crushing to pay back otherwise.