[Jim Noble]

>>The careful reader, though, looks at the paragraph as a whole<<

FreeTally is not a careful reader.

[FreeTally]

If you want to believe that a majority of persons in this country around the late 1770's thought of blacks as equals to white men, then go one believing it. Its not based in fact, though. They were uneducated savages for the most part. Anyone could see that. That's why they had no problem enslaving them.