In what way . I think there are a number of Peoplein Society who are working to make the ideals of the declaration a reality. Theres ideals expressed in the preamble about the quality and the pursuit of happiness so i think we have that idea and were trying to reach that. With the founders, and this is one of those silly questions but with the founders recognize who we are today . Of course not. Some aspects they would but others, women participating in politics, blacks participating in politics, all those things would have been foreign to them and the power of the United States. At the time were talking about, 1776 this is the 13 colonies in the middle of nowhere. They dont have the power, theyre leaving an Empire And Weve become an empire so i think they probably wouldnt have seen all that happened in the United States up to this point. Have you weighed in onthe 1776 versus 1619 debate that were having in the country . Ive done interviews and things like that but i havent written any
Watch american History And Book tv every weekend on cspan2 and find a full schedule on your Program Guide or visit cspan. Org. Annette gordonreed on the 245th anniversary of 1776, are we that exceptional nation we often tell ourselves we are . Were certainly trying to be. In what way . I think there are a number of Peoplein Society who are working to make the ideals of the declaration a reality. Theres ideals expressed in the preamble about the quality and the pursuit of happiness so i think we have that idea and were trying to reach that. With the founders, and this is one of those silly questions but with the founders recognize who we are today . Of course not. Some aspects they would but others, women participating in politics, blacks participating in politics, all those things would have been foreign to them and the power of the United States. At the time were talking about, 1776 this is the 13 colonies in the middle of nowhere. They dont have the power, theyre leaving an Empire An
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there would have been no place on this mountaintop without slavery. we want to restore that, they cut known to visitors who come today. that, make that known to visitors who come today. we are now in the middle of re-creating or restoring mulberry row, the main plantation street, as well as the attachment to the house behind us. all of this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. right now, we are actually just near jefferson s main house, the palladian mansion he built throughout his life, and we are sending standing next to mulberry row, the main street through monticello. through research, we know over 20 workshops, storehouses and dwellings lined this street. there were enslaved families here, indentured servants, hired white artisans, and several of these workshops or supervised by jefferson and members of his family. this is the hub of industry at mon
the virginia plan for example, the compromise presented at the constitutional convention thought the balance of large and small states and bicameral legislature. another critical compromise is the agreement to tolerate slavery even though it would be prohibited in 1808. without the compromise the southern states would never have agreed to ratify the constitution and there would have been you know no united states of america. a great wrong was embedded in our find a shuttle document and the seeds of civil war were stone. the founders, even many of the slaveholders among them acknowledged slavery was an abomination antithetical to the declaration of independence many of them signed. most hoped it would disappear for economic reasons, but for 80 years americans would live with the start contradictions between the existence of slavery within its borders and the first principle of the declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain