[DiogenesLamp]

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.

[cowboyusa]

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