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Quote by: rez  What is it going to take for you to understand that slavery was a whole seperate issue. The focus was on becoming independent from Britian, not slavery.
All men are created equal would later be used to make slavery illegal.
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Actually, no it wasn't. A great many of the founding fathers, who employed radical rhetoric, of freedom and liberty, were well aware that their treatment of slaves was highly hypocritical, as observers were to note: -
That I deny man never can be well treated who is deprived of his rights. They are well clothed, well fed, well lodged. Feed me with ambrosia, and wash it down with nectar, yet what are these if liberty be wanting? You took arms in defence of the rights of man. Your Negroes are men. Where then are the rights of your Negroes? They have been injured to slavery, and are not fit for freedom. Thus it was said of the French; but where is the man of unbiased common sense who will assert that the French republicans of the present are not fit for freedom?
Edward Rushton to George Washington, 1796.
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But your claim is that the consitution endorsed slavery.
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It did through failure to even mention it. It, in effect, gave those in favour of slavery free reign to do whatever they pleased in terms of slavery. Many of the founding fathers could not be seen to endorse slavery openly, and publically declared it as 'evil', etc, but when it came to actual legality and policy they defended it and slave owners.
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See the leftist cause is to slander the founding fathers and put them in a bad light.
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Sorry G, but I'm doing a Masters dissertation on this topic, and it is how it is.