Why Didn't the Founders Abolish Slavery? - Intellectual Takeout

Why Didn't the Founders Abolish Slavery? - Intellectual Takeout

"Reparations for slavery have reemerged as a hotbed issue in the 2020 election, raising the question of why the Founding Fathers did not abolish slavery when starting their new country.
Many of the Founders – including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton – opposed the practice. 

• They denounced slavery in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence and banned it in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. 

This raises the question: If they opposed slavery, then why did it persist in the U.S. until 1865?

• Here are four reasons taken from their own writings during the founding period:

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