“It is forgotten that everyone, black or white, who lived in the 1700s and 1800s accepted as a ‘given’ that human bondage was OK.”
Not true. There were many of the FF who were vehemently against slavery and wanted that addressed in the founding documents. They finally gave in to the others on that issue in order to get an official document signed.
The British Empire’s role in all of it has also been masterfully erased. It is difficult to fully describe just how complete the erasure of America is with progressives controlling the schools for the last 120 years.
As the Declaration makes clear, not one thing in America happened in the void that progressives want it to appear as.
America is nothing without the tyrant on the other side of the ocean. In a void, the Founders were just random people who did random things and a king? What king? There was no king. The founders were just slaveholders doing things. Grievances in a declaration, what? Only blacks have grievances. ..... You know the mindset.
The reality is that in the arc of history, our Founders were on the correct side of history on everything up to and including the issues of slavery.
We desperately need citizen historians to tell the story(ies) that the progressives have erased.