Slavery in Ancient Greece was ubiquitous. Let's assume every citizen of Athens, for example, accepted the legitimacy of slavery. Would that mean there were no morally good Athenians?
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Morality applies to actions, judging a person as a whole is usually hard even if you know most of their life, even more so if you don't know much. What's important is that slavery is immoral, not whether a person in the ancient past did more moral than immoral actions.
Well, that's not necessarily true - virtue ethicists would see it different, for example. Also, many (most?) theological frameworks would think it possible a person to be evil - the proper focus of moral condemnation.
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