This chapter also mentions how the Declaration of Independence—a document Thomas Jefferson helped write— expressed no sympathy for the real slaves even though they had a chance to.Reading about these subjects in school never sat well with me because we are supposed to see the Founding Father’s and the white soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War as heroes patriotically fighting for their freedom, while at the same time they were actively upholding the practice of slavery. This chapter also brought up the point that the words slave and slavery where excluded from the Constitution and that this showed how reluctant the Founding Fathers were to debate the morality of it or at least trying to control it. I understand that they wanted to keep the peace and have every state on board while they drafted the Constitution, but I feel like they could have tried harder to protect the slaves and make it so that their suffering was
This chapter also mentions how the Declaration of Independence—a document Thomas Jefferson helped write— expressed no sympathy for the real slaves even though they had a chance to.Reading about these subjects in school never sat well with me because we are supposed to see the Founding Father’s and the white soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War as heroes patriotically fighting for their freedom, while at the same time they were actively upholding the practice of slavery. This chapter also brought up the point that the words slave and slavery where excluded from the Constitution and that this showed how reluctant the Founding Fathers were to debate the morality of it or at least trying to control it. I understand that they wanted to keep the peace and have every state on board while they drafted the Constitution, but I feel like they could have tried harder to protect the slaves and make it so that their suffering was