A fair amount of them actually knew, but in order to get all the votes for independence they had to still allow slavery, because yay my backwater state of SC wanted to keep it.
Hence why John Adam’s was so pissed off. For them at the time it was either that or no independence at all. He even stated their children would have to fight the sin of slavery.
Which was a biblically-oriented culture. This stuff goes back millennia. Tribal males don't like other tribes or females making the rules. We're still a bit reptilian.
Bravo and thank you! You're the first person I've seen acknowledge it on social media. How is the concept of 'freedom' supposed to work if a nation promotes slavery? It was a bad first date - a terrible precedent - and we're still paying for it today!
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