No need to be sorry-—I agree with everything you said.
Kids today are also not taught, and have no idea, that the Founders by and large abhorred slavery, but they understood that they would never have a unified nation AT THAT POINT if they abolished slavery there and then. In other words, it was a choice of having an imperfect nation or none at all. However, they acted to curtail it as much as they could.
Thank you. I was only apologizing for the rant.
"Kids today are also not taught, and have no idea, that the Founders by and large abhorred slavery, but they understood that they would never have a unified nation AT THAT POINT if they abolished slavery there and then. In other words, it was a choice of having an imperfect nation or none at all. However, they acted to curtail it as much as they could."
Yes, those of us who have read the Constitutional debates know that many of the Founders wanted to include that in early drafts. Unfortunately, others were still locked into the ways of the time. Still, those exceptional men of conscience gave us a way to amend our societal compact, and so we did and to the betterment of the world.