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In the article, How to Understand Slavery and the American Founding by Matthew Spalding, You learn within the frame work built by our founding fathers for our country, they had intentions to end slavery. The idea of slavery in the the colonies came from the King of England, George III. By the time of the end of the revolution, leaders like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison all had views that slavery needed to end.

How I agreed with this article, In 1774, The first Continental Congress agreed to discontinue the slave trade and boycott other nations who engaged in it. Thomas Jefferson had written in drafts of the Virginia Constitution and Declaration of Independence condemning slavery and the British king who implemented it. In 1786, Washington spoke on the subject of slavery and how he hoped that there would be a plan in place to abolish slavery. I agreed with this point because I admire how our countrymen saw how disgusting this problem was and decided to change it.

How I disagreed with this article. (It's not what I really disagreed with the article but the text within about the subject of slavery.) In the same year, 1774, Thomas Jefferson proposed a plan to emancipate all slaves in the state of Virginia. Instead of that being enacted, it was swiftly and soundly disapproved. Also, it seemed that after Eli Whitney's invention in 1793 of the Cotton Gin, Slavery was booming again. It was like they gave up on freeing slaves to line their pockets.

It poses different questions, Why was earning money so much more important to some than freeing men and going into a Civil War that cost countless lives? What did slavery accomplish other than leaving a stain on our country?

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To end the disgusting practice of slavery, the United States of America, We had to implement the Thirteenth Amendment. It abolished slavery and made it illegal. We no longer have slavery in the states but we do still have increasing racial tensions.