On Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:11:29 AM UTC-8, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/6/2013 10:50 PM, BottleBob wrote:


Blacks as a sub-species... a convenient bit of shared sophistry there.



Not in the least. That was the prevailing sentiment among the founder,
both slave owners and not.

I'm not so sure about that. It seems that Thomas Jefferson had ambivalent feelings about slaves.

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Thomas Jefferson and slavery refers to the role and relationship Thomas Jefferson had with slavery.[1] He owned plantations totaling thousands of acres and owned hundreds of slaves during his lifetime.[2][3] His record on slavery was mixed and contradictory. He was an opponent of the slave trade and disliked the effects of slavery on society and believed slavery harmful to both slave and master.
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Since the Founders that didn't actually OWN slaves looked the other way when they were assigned UNequal status.



They didn't look the other way. They understood they had to accommodate
slavery in order to obtain a union.

But isn't that essentially just sucking it up and looking the other way?

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