The history of American liberty – and its hypocrisy

Nineteen of the 75 delegates at the Philadelphia convention which drafted the American Constitution in 1787 owned slaves. The Declaration of Independence said that all men were created equal, but the Constitution only recognised a slave as a fraction of a person.

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