[rlmorel]

Those were removed in order to allow its passage as a unifying document.

Many of the influential founders understood what a black mark slavery was on the principle that all men are created equal, but the more pressing need of the day was to create a union.

It was the right thing to do at the time given the realities of the day.

This is nice to see, just to counter the idiots on the Left who decry Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as slave owners, but I despise the practice of impressing the morality of today on the morality of people who lived centuries ago.

[Yulee]

Those were removed in order to allow its passage as a unifying document.
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I believe Beck stated the vote was 11 for acceptance and 2 against. Each paragraph had to receive a unanimous vote to be added to the Constitution.

So much for the charge that the founding fathers were totally racist.

[Leaning Right]

> Those were removed in order to allow its passage as a unifying document. <

Right. And folks should always be judged within the context of their times.

Anyway, it would have been nice if the Founders had devised a plan to slowly phase out slavery. But even that might not have been accepted by the slave-owning states.

[af_vet_1981]

history.com explains the removal:

Decades later, in his autobiography, Jefferson primarily blamed two Southern states for the clause’s removal, while acknowledging the North’s role as well:

"The clause...reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under these censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.”

[DesertRhino]

The smallest tweak of reality could do so much for this country. How many black school kids ever learn the first man killed in the American Revolution was Crispus Attucks, a black man, former slave who was on the colonists side at the Boston Massacre? No kid learns about Dorie Miller, George Washington Carver, Booker T Washington and other towering giants.
So many good stories to tell, but the world wants them to be angry victims with a grudge.

[Jacquerie]

Agree entirely.

The people today who decry our country for an institution that the GOP ended some 160 years ago, one that enslaved black people, applaud a practice today that kills black babies.

[j.havenfarm]

Not exactly “unearthed”. Well known; I’ve known about it forever

[Adder]

Sounds like you are confusing the Declaration with the Constitution.

The quoted paragraphs are from the Declaration draft...

[Free Louie]

It’s kinda like the brits institutionalized the sme kind of systemthe dems are condescendingly foisting on us with illegal immigrants who do “jobs we wont.” This has veritably the same effect as slavery in that it softens a people and indulges their inclinations towards laziness. In the end, given the left believes we need illegal immigration to keep costs down, the left (the democrats) are continuing their tradition as the party of slavery..

[DiogenesLamp]

Many of the influential founders understood what a black mark slavery was on the principle that all men are created equal,...

One of my major gripes about modern people's views of the Declaration is that the document has become the "Declaration of all men are created equal."

The focus on this bit of flowery language has overshadowed the actual purpose of the document.

"All men are created equal" seems to be about the only thing most people know about the document, and yet those words could have been left completely out of it without changing it's purpose.

What was its purpose again?