How do you feel about the “Founding Fathers” owning slaves?
The Founding Fathers laid out an excellent plan for a government, but they we’re basically British businessmen living in a time when the British empire saw slavery as business as usual. Many individuals detested the practice of slavery, but few of them were in a position to challenge the institution of plantation slave labor. It took an different time and different people to finally put an end to slavery, and in America it only happened under the most painful of circumstances. But the Founding Fathers fought to be free of all monarchies and were able to create what still stands as the best form of government. Abandoning slavery 1776 when the United States first became independent of England would have been a wonderful thing, but the individual states had a lot more power before the Civil War. The newly formed federal government was in no position to dictate to half the states that their entire economy be dramatically changed. The southern plantation states never would have remained all
