This is more or less the standard understanding of how the Founding generation in Virginia framed slavery, esp by contrast to its characterization by Calhoun & his followers as a positive good. https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1287567993795420161 …
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IOW, 1) the Founders were divided on slavery, 2) most saw it as bad, 3) places like VA & MD argued they weren't ready for abolition as the North was 4) the Convention lived with compromises but 5) they still wrote a Constitution that enabled state-level abolition.
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