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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Along came the framers of the US constitution who said, "Nope. All men created equal? Check! All people endowed (by their creator, ha ha!) with inalienable rights? Check!" That was a RADICAL notion for its day. Radical and NEW. And they posited it in a way that had it be a truth for all time, but it didn't actually exist until they said it.
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given that line of thought......black people were not considered people before the 13th Amendment, they were considered property. If they were considered property before then and not people, why was slavery bad? it didn't enslave humans, did it?
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