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Why Didn't the Founders Abolish Slavery?

By Filings on Wed, 07/03/19
Society & Culture
Slavery
Founding Fathers
U.S. History
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“4. They Thought Opposition Would Grow Organically, Not Coercively …. The Founders thought that the policies they implemented would suffocate slavery’s spread, and coupled with the younger generation’s voracious absorbance of ‘the principles of liberty,’ would create an environment in which slavery’s extinction would be inevitable.” - Intellectual Takeout

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  • Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Setting the Record Straight on Catholicism and Slavery: A Review of Paul Kengor’s ‘The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery’
  • Alex O’Connor Says Scripture Supports Slavery. He’s Wrong.

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