If the Smithsonian Institution was more interested in promoting a patriotic version of U.S. history, would it put the Abolitionist Founding Fathers on display?

PGA Weblog ^ | 8/23/25

[ProgressingAmerica]

Yes, labor contracts of a non-slave type did exist when the Constitution was written.

They even had a name. They were called “indentured servants”, and they were also called “redemptioners”. Now, yes, also, there were slaves themselves. They were also covered.

Here, you must need this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemptioner

You do not need to omit this.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"The original slave states of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Rhode Island all voted to include in the Constitution the ability to continue the importation of slaves and the return of fugitive slaves and you say that is not a pro-slavery document?"

Voting in a definitive end to something is not "pro" anything. They all said: This ends in 1808.

That is not pro. That's anti.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"If you think it is pro slavery, why does it have a sunset written into it."

Well duh, if you think something utterly necessary then you sunset it. That's the best way to make it last forever!

(sarcasm needed?)