My ancestors from Roanoke owned no slaves, yet fought for their independence. For them and for me it was not about slavery.
Guess who made the following statement?
My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own native land. But a moment’s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.
"My proposition would be that the holders [of slaves] should give up all born after a certain day, past, present, or to come, that these should be placed under the guardianship of the State, and sent at a proper age to S. Domingo. There they are willing to recieve them, & the shortness of the passage brings the deportation within the possible means of taxation aided by charitable contributions."
I don't know if you are racist. You'd probably defend slavery no matter what color the slaves were.
My ancestors from Roanoke owned no slaves, yet fought for their independence. For them and for me it was not about slavery.
Read some history.
I am sure that many people fought valiantly for their homeland, but trying to ignore the role slavery played is disingenuous.
The "Cause" was in its essence, wrong.