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The history of slavery.

Key fact number one.

The Founding Fathers' views regarding and their conflict with the institution of slavery. Contrary to popular belief, the Founding Fathers' views regarding and their conflict with the institution of slavery.

Contrary to popular belief, the Founding Fathers always recognized the inherent immorality of slavery

and intended for its corrections since the inception of the United States.

For example, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington wrote in a letter to Robert Morris,

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority, and this, as far as my suffrage will go shall never be wanting in other words George Washington would do anything in his power to make that happen in another example at the 1787 federal convention George Mason proclaimed every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.

As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this.

And even Benjamin Franklin, during his later years, became a vocal critic of slavery, even serving as the president of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery.

Unfortunately, these men found themselves in a time in which slavery was codified in many ways

and hoped for a solution to prevail legislatively.

Key fact number two.

The percentage of slaves who were owned and sold.

The pervasive notion that people were captured from the old world and enslaved into the new

is simply not in accordance with the factual or historical accounts.

According to researchers at Boston University, at least 90% of slaves shipped to the new world

were in fact captured and sold by African slave traders.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Africans had already enslaved and traded approximately

11 million slaves to the Islamic world alone.

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