One of the favorite narratives of angry, America-hating liberals is to bring up the fact that America was once a slave nation and some of America’s ‘founding fathers’ were slave owners.
Surf progressive/liberal social media pages and it’s just a matter of (not much) time before you encounter an angry liberal typing in all caps and using multiple exclamation marks to say, “AMERICA IS A RACIST NATION THAT WAS FOUNDED BY RACISTS WHO OWNED SLAVES!!!”
Or some variety thereof.
While a part of that narrative is true–some of our Constitution’s signers were slave owners–telling that part is only telling one half of the story. If you’re going to scream, “This is a racist nation, founded by racists, steeped in racism and racist to the core!!!” and cite the fact that some of our founders were slave-owners to back the statement up, it’s only fair to tell the other half of the slavery story too — that those supposed racists also ended slavery.
We had a little thing here called the Civil War.
Here’s a simple backdrop:
Read on!
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