[dr_lew]

Yes, many of our Founders inherited plantations in the age of slavery, but many had such other incredibly redeeming qualities that we cannot judge them entirely on the fact that they happened to live in a time and place that included this particular flaw.

FLAW, you say? Suppose this FLAW had been corrected, then what? No Slavery? No Africans? No Plantations? No America? How can we figure this?

[jfd1776]

Not sure where you’re going with this.

Yes, it was a flaw. A severe, awful flaw.

Many in the Founding Era - much more than half the important people, by my count - tried to build in a process to bring it to an end, but cost and demographics made it extremely difficult.

There are some slaveowners in the history books whom I do not forgive, there are others I think we must.

It’s not as black-and-white an issue as the left would have us believe.