One of the biggest mistakes our founding fathers made was letting slavery continue. We have so many problems now because of it.
while I agree, your point is just the flip side of “dead white male slave owners” (ignore the black slave owners, please).
Instead, my thinking about this suggests that while liberals continue to bash America with it, there is a deeper message to consider that affects how we think about how society is organized. - One can either decide you can push an agenda of changing human behavior just as we banned slavery, or take a more fatalistic view. Aristotle described many people as “natural slaves”. Yet “slavery” has been banished in many countries. -—any way, still computing...computing...
Good comments -- though the transformation from the so-called Roman republic to period where there was a permanent chief executive in the form of the Emperor, and the Senate wasn't made up entirely of hereditary nobility which owned almost everything, and held as much as 40 percent of the population as slaves, and became much more representative of the population of the Empire, is often misrepresented as a bad thing.
They had to else else some of the cotton/agri growing states weren't going to ratify.
The founding fathers (ff's) were conscious of the down range implications and felt that letting future generations grapple with was the lesser of two evils. Leaving the south exposed to foreign influences was not an option to the ff's.