“The desire to own other human beings as property—not to mention actually codifying slavery as a Right(!) in the founding documents which were establishing a new government—cannot be construed as anything other than a “malicious motive”.
You probably know this but, just for the tally book, the states that voted to enshrine human slavery into the U.S. constitution were: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland.
Oh yes, and Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
You probably know this but, just for the tally book, the states that voted to enshrine human slavery into the U.S. constitution were: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland. Oh yes, and Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
Yes, those were Sargon's words that I had copied and placed in italics when I replied to him.