How about The Middleton Bros of South Carolina, signers of the Declaration of Independence, who owned one of the largest plantations in that state. Or...Thomas Jefferson, who had a black mistress, yet refused to free his own CHILDREN? Do you SERIOUSLY believe these men believed that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL? Their actions speak quite clear.
If you believe otherwise, I have a great piece of ocean-front property in Colorado for sale cheap.....:)
Slavery was something they were born into, but they hoped to end.
The fact that they voted to not allow it in the Northwest showed that they did not want it to expand into the new States.