Around 10 years after Solomon's release, one of our most famous cases went before the US Supreme Court. The "Dred Scott" case. What makes it one of our most famous cases is a line uttered by Chief Justice Roger Taney at the conclusion of the case. That blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."
So your guess is almost certainly correct.
And...it is a mindset that the US is still virtually destroying itself trying to reconcile, over 150 years later.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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