AlterEgo,
I have no desire to split hairs with you and Google stuff that bolsters me and undermines you.
just because you have nothing to say :-)...
I was reacting to your blanket comment that the founding fathers considered blacks and women as non-human.
absolutely they did...
Clearly some did, and some did not. In 1789, there were 5 free and 8 slave states
which ones ? let us see what actually was happening as of 1789...
1
Delaware =
http://slavenorth.com/delaware.htm = "By 1810, some 78 percent of Delaware's blacks were free (as opposed to 63 percent in New York and 42 percent in New Jersey in the same year), and unlike other northern states, it had been done voluntarily, without legal requirements. By 1840, only 13 percent of the state's blacks were enslaved, and slaves made up a mere 3 percent of the total population. " =
SLAVE STATE2
Pennsylvania =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Pennsylvania = "Slavery ended in Pennsylvania in
1847, when the state legislature passed a law voiding the property rights of Pennsylvania slaveholders", "The first U.S. Census in 1790 recorded 3,737 slaves in Pennsylvania (36% of the Black population). By 1810, the total Black population had more than doubled, but the percentage who were slaves had dropped to 3% and 795 slaves were listed in the state." =
SLAVE STATE3
New Jersey =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_Jersey = " New Jersey state legislature was the last in the North to abolish slavery, passing a law in 1804 for its gradual abolition.[18] The 1804 statute and subsequent laws freed children born after the law was passed. African Americans born to slave mothers after July 4, 1804 had to serve lengthy apprenticeships to the owners of their mothers. Women were freed at 21, but men were not emancipated until the age of 25.[19] Slaves who had been born before these laws were passed were considered, after 1846, as indentured servants who were "apprenticed for life." =
SLAVE STATE4
Georgia = no need to bother checking, slavery till Civil War =
SLAVE STATE5
Connecticut =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Connecticut = "Connecticut abolished slavery in
1848." =
SLAVE STATE6
Massachusetts =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Massachusetts = this one was free by 1791 =
FREE STATE7
Maryland =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Maryland = "by 1860 Maryland's free black population comprised 49.1% of the total number of African Americans in the state" =
SLAVE STATE8
South Carolina = no need to bother checking, slavery till Civil War =
SLAVE STATE9
New Hampshire =
http://slavenorth.com/newhampshire.htm = "Slaves were removed from the rolls of taxable property in 1789, but the act appears to have been for taxing purposes only. The 1790 census counted 158 slaves; but in 1800, there were only 8."... ok, let it be a little pregnant one =
PREGNANT WITH FREE 10
Virginia = no need to bother checking, slavery till Civil War =
SLAVE STATE11
New York =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York = "In 1817, the state freed all slaves born before July 4, 1799 (the date of the gradual abolition law), to be effective in 1827. It continued with the indenture of children born to slave mothers until their 20s, as noted above.[6] On July 4, 1827, the African-American community celebrated final emancipation in the state with a long parade through New York City." =
SLAVE STATE12
North Carolina = no need to bother checking, slavery till Civil War =
SLAVE STATE13
Rhode Island =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Rhode_Island = " In February 1784, the Rhode Island Legislature passed a compromise measure for gradual emancipation of slaves within Rhode Island. All children of slaves born after March 1 were to be "apprentices," the girls to become free at 18, the boys at 21. By
1840, the census reported only five African Americans enslaved in Rhode Island."... =
SLAVE STATEyou probably can't comprehend that prohibiting import and making newborns free does not constitute a "free" state
, likewise a slave owner is a slave owner - founding father or not...
so what do we have with the issue of
WMD in Iraq actual slavery in those 13 founding states in 1791... oops... 1 free state (MA), one little pregnant (NH) and 11 genuinely slave states... eh