No, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery

Tags: U.S. History, World History

10/29/2020 Lipton Matthews

The fact that some Americans supported slavery in the eighteenth century is not at all remarkable. Most of the world agreed with them. What is remarkable is that many of them sought to abolish slavery in the new republic.

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