I just don't know why some Board members don't perform some basic research. No, not all of the Founding fathers condoned slavery. Just to name one Founding Father who attended the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Another is Governeur Morris, a delegate from Pennsylvania. Another is Rodger Sherman, a delegate from Connecticut.
The United States Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers says nothing about all men are created equal. That phrase is contained in the Declaration of Independence.
Once again: only 25 of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were slaveholders; As my post above states, 55 delegates attended the Convention. 25 is not even half of 55 let alone most.
The Constitution does not use the words slave or slavery due to one of the compromises between the delegates in order to avoid the slaveholding states delegates leaving the Convention.
There are plenty of luminaries who did not attend the Convention and opposed slavery. Among them, John Adams and Sam Adams
I wasn't agreeing to the belief that all of the Founders believed in slavery or were slaveholders, but challenging those who do believe that about the Founders as somehow negating everything they did or said. In other words, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Nor did I make the simpleton-minded claim that because belief in slavery was common that it somehow justified it. Denouncing anachronistic thinking is not the same as making moral excuses.
