To: PeterPrinciple
You have quite a convoluted interpretation................ A more realistic interpretation than believing 13 slave owning states were objecting to slavery, while continuing to profit from it.
People who think 13 slave owning states would be denouncing slavery while continuing to profit from it are wishfully thinking.
"All men are created equal" was intended to refer to themselves. It wasn't until later that more people started seeing it as referring to the slaves.
This is a realistic interpretation.
31 posted on
02/12/2024 12:14:26 PM PST by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: DiogenesLamp
The Founders were trying to hem slavery in, the beloved that it was on it's way to extension, the Cotton Gin changed things. Also, the Slavery System was anti free market and anti- innovation
33 posted on
02/12/2024 12:17:11 PM PST by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEgermany in 1837. FTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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