[OIFVeteran]

From my readings almost all the founding fathers realized slavery was wrong and counter to the Declaration of Independence. However, starting around the 1830s many southerns started to advocate that slavery was a positive good. By the 1850s they had reached a point where being against slavery was evil and slavery was good. They had chased away, sometimes violently, any southern abolitionists.

There is a story I read once where a man was chasing a horse thief threw a southern town. He kept yelling stop that horse thief, to try and get help. Nobody help him. He then yelled stop that abolitionists and a few men then jumped him. I'll see if I can find the source of that story again.

[jeffersondem]

“From my readings almost all the founding fathers realized slavery was wrong and counter to the Declaration of Independence.”

That sure sounds good to my ear.

It makes me question what I read last month in Imprimis - 41 of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners.

[jeffersondem]

“From my readings almost all the founding fathers realized slavery was wrong and counter to the Declaration of Independence.”

That sure sounds good to my ear.

It makes me question what I read last month in Imprimis - 41 of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners.