I highly doubt a bunch of slave owners would be interested in any sort of financial freedom for all. They just wanted to be top of a new pile instead of being the middlemen in the previous system. Having ideals is one thing but running with it and executing it is entirely another. When we in South Africa received civil rights back in 1994 there was so much promise of things to come but without economic freedom, it was never going to be realised. Each government is just another iPhone, all hype but its basically the same as the previous one and costs the average person more.