Sorry, but the founding fathers who held other humans in bondage for all sorts of free labor?
Those founding fathers, or did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning? Let me check wikipedia…
Actually, slavery was a bitter dividing line among the founders of the USA. It is intellectually lazy to ascribe slavery to all of the founders of the USA. It also insults those who were vocally and politically against slavery, from the very earliest days. You can find many examples with any effort at all.
Like, doesn't the sheer magnitude of the inhumanity that actually existed in these times kind of overshadow whatever armchair-enlightment some guys voiced?
How could you be aware of what they did in those times even the slightest bit, and yet still be concerned that one might "insult" guys who have been dead 200 years? How can that even make sense?
(None of us are fully independent but gain and suffer inertia from history and society at large.)
Still, we can learn from Ancient Greece, American Founders, as well as folks today.
Feel free to downvote because I’m not gonna accept your revisionist history.
$googlesearch "how many signers of the US Constitution were slave owners?"
25 Of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, about 25 owned slaves. Many of the framers harbored moral qualms about slavery.
Historical Context: The Constitution and Slavery
Was it good? No, it was a bad idea. But that's something we say comfortably from our homes in a large, powerful country. In 1787... this was a remote and weak place. If you wanted the slave-dependent colonies to join, you had to either buy their slaves from them or allow it to continue. And there wasn't enough money to buy them.
