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“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.

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

jeffersondem: "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."

I once counted them up.
In 1776 all Southern and half of the Northern Founders were slaveholders.
By 1787 no Northern Founder owned slaves while all but two Southern Founders were slaveholders.

But in 1787 even Southern slaveholders, like Washington Jefferson & Madison, acknowledged slavery as a moral evil which should be gradually abolished.

As OIFVeteran pointed out, the dividing line between our Founders' somewhat weak abolitionism and 1860s Fire Eater pro-slavery came in roughly 1832, with the Virginia state debates on abolition.
In January 1832 the Richmond Enquirer editorialized:

"It is probable from what we hear, that the Committee on the colored population will report some plan for getting rid of free people of color

—But is this all that can bedone?
Are we forever to suffer the greatest evil, which can scourge our land, not only to remain, but to increase in its dimensions?"

As late as 1832, even the Richmond Enquirer recognized slavery as "the greatest evil which can scourge our land", and yet long before 1860 Southern abolitionism had all but disappeared.

What are you trying to insinuate? That the founding fathers were all evil white supremacist that just didn’t want to pay taxes? Sounds like something an American hating Antifa member would say. You sure your at the right website?