while forgetting they were written by rich white male slave owners and businessmen at a time when the concern was that the ratio of Africans to non-Africans created the constant risk of them rising up and basically slaughtering them all, like they did in the Caribbean.
I've seen some liberals try to give Thomas Jefferson credit for passing the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807, but if you use your brain for two seconds you can tell this isn't because he was a slaveowning abolitionist, but because the Haitians had just brought the liquidation of their masters to completion three years prior and the US slaveowners were scared shitless.
I've seen some liberals try to give Thomas Jefferson credit for passing the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807, but if you use your brain for two seconds you can tell this isn't because he was a slaveowning abolitionist, but because the Haitians had just brought the liquidation of their masters to completion three years prior and the US slaveowners were scared shitless.
Exactly. There's a lot of warning signs but the mythology around the US is strong.