It’s always seemed to me–though you will get plenty of argument about it from the liberal multicults– that the slaveowners among the Founders knew what they were doing when they voted for a Declaration of Independence declaring that "all men are created equal." The lawyers among them, in particular, knew that slavery would be abolished sooner or later and that women (since they meant "men" in an inclusive sense) would win rights that they then didn’t have.
The notion belies the currently-popular idea that the nation was racist and sexist from the start, which Mackubin Owens notes is abetted by such otherwise harmless examples of PC as the New Jersey Legislature’s recent apology for slavery. Not that even conservatives, such as the recent Lincoln bashers, don’t like a good argument about such things now and then.
Via No Left Turns
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I reckon they never heard the rumor about the anti-slavery portions of the declaration Jefferson had to take out in order to get it passed.
I reckon they never heard the rumor about the anti-slavery portions of the declaration Jefferson had to take out in order to get it passed.
Probably not. In any case, instead of these silly slavery apologies, which are all too easy, they ought to apologize for decades of legal segregation and discrimination after emancipation. Right up until the 1960s. But I guess that would be a little too close to home.
Probably not. In any case, instead of these silly slavery apologies, which are all too easy, they ought to apologize for decades of legal segregation and discrimination after emancipation. Right up until the 1960s. But I guess that would be a little too close to home.