Obama, Reparations and 40 Acres and a Mule

The New Georgia Encyclopedia ^ | 9/2005 | Barton Myers

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To make matters worse, the Constitutional Convention failed to resolve the question of slavery. Punting this issue turned out to be a real blunder. And the Founders have to be held to accounts. I suspect that if the Founders could take a mulligan on that one, knowing what transpired "four score and seven years" later they would do it differently.

If you will permit me to elaborate on my own post let me cast this argument in a somewhat more palatable form.

Imagine that the history of the United States was just one long episode of the Simpsons. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention from places like South Carolina who insisted that the question of slavery be deferred (e.g. folks like Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, etc.) would be seen in heaven in 1863 pounding their heads against the wall going:

DOH! DOH! DOH! DOH! ....