Where does one begin when the defense of Donald Trump turns into an economic rationalization for slavery, and that race never entered into the equation? It's sometimes hard to believe that we're actually living in the twenty-first century when you hear people say things like this. But I suppose for people like Werner Horn slavery is, or at least was, just a natural part of the human condition. Source: Fox News A lawmaker in New Hampshire said this week that American slavery had nothing to do with racism and was just purely about economics. Republican state Rep.