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    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      That saying has struck me as silly for a long time since there was a very large and obvious group that wasn’t a fan of slavery back then - The slaves

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      Multiple founding fathers were abolitionists. IIRC Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Payne were the main advocates against slavery in the constitution (some were even against the 3/5ths compromise).

      The debate over the morality stretches back to ancient Greece. Spartans and Athenians would argue over it. We’ve always known it was wrong, but some people want to own slaves anyway and have to bend over backwards to justify it.