No issue, of course, raises deeper questions about the founders' commitment to liberty and self-government than slavery. Critics of the Founding Fathers ask how can we take seriously anything said by Jefferson, Madison, and their contemporaries on the subject of liberty and democracy when these men and many of their countrymen were denying liberty and self-government to some hundreds of thousands of black Americans.
Common today is the view that "the founders excluded the Negroes from the rights of man' expressed in the Declaration of Independence and sanctioned slavery and Ne
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