And yet we kept slaves for nearly 100 years after that. We half knew it was wrong but just couldn’t cross the line. Like somebody in their 30s that’s keeps doing crappy stuff and blames their parents. They know it’s crappy, they know it should stop, but they keep doing it anyway. Cause they’re not good people.
In all fairness, the issues of economics as well as the overall controversial nature of abolishing slavery among the populace would have posed a lot of problems as well, so the founding fathers were being pragmatic to ensure the survival of their republic, lest they just decide to emulate France and reduce it to a game of Purge.