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| Topic | Were the American Founding Fathers cowards when it came to slavery? |
| TheMikh 07/19/20 2:16:26 PM #33: | SiO4 posted... The thing is the southern states never would have gone along with signing the constitution.came in here to post this also, sowell put it best - something along the lines that the founding generation saw it as an immoral burden but also an inheritance many were bound to the maintenance of a conflict of interest, if you will their "compromise", then, was to ban the atlantic trade in 1808, left the question to the states, and let later generations sort out the question (which resulted in the civil war) --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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