Slavery was practiced in America when it was founded so we were hardly founded on Biblical principles.
Slavery was already well on the way out by the founding of this Republic. Washington, Jefferson and the other distinguished men of that era were all working diligently to free their servants. And there’s no question that these men indeed treated their current slaves as members of their own family. It’s a well-worn leftist falsehood that the Founding Fathers were “slavemasters” in the evil sense of that word. Moreover...and this is quite telling...slavery was not sanctioned by the Constitution.