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During the 1780s, Hamilton was one of the founders of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, which was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the state of New York. After reading about Alexander Hamilton's work for the New York Manumission Society, I gained a greater appreciation of Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton and the New York Manumission Society | Everyday Citizen
John Jay founded the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May be Liberated or the New York Manumission Society, and became its first president in 1785.
New York Manumission Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marquis de Lafayette - Jay Friend, Revolutionary War Hero and Honorary Member of the NY Manumission Society.
Marquis de Lafayette - Jay Friend, Revolutionary War Hero and Honorary Member of the NY Manumission Society | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
In Philadelphia at the start of the Revolution, Quakers founded the Society for Promoting Abolition of Slavery and Relief of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Franklin would become its president in 1787. In Pennsylvania and New York, Quaker congregations began to expel slave owners. Methodists, on fire from the revivalist Great Awakening, came to see God's love and freedom as universals, and preachers set out to convert blacks. Methodists voted to remove slaveholders from church membership.
Finding Slaves in Unexpected Places : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site
It would be four years before New Hampshire acted, but Vermont moved quickly and freed its slaves in 1777. Soon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island began gradual emancipation. By the 1790 census, there were no slaves to be counted in Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
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Sorry....but our Founding Fathers screwed the pooch when it came to slavery and human rights in general. But what the heck.....it was the 18th century what did they know about human rights?
They started a progression that eventually lead to the liberties we enjoy today but it was future generations that eventually granted those liberties
That is why we cannot take the writings of the founding fathers as gospel. They could never comprehend the complexities of our society .....why would we want them to make decisions for us?
Judge Bork makes the point that Originalists can easily apply timeless constitutional commands to new technologies, such as wiretapping and television, and to changed circumstances, as suits for libel and slander. All the judge needs is knowledge of the core value that the Framers intended to protect. And, while we may not decide every case in the way the Framers would have, entire ranges of problems will be placed off limits to judges, thus preserving democracy in those areas where the framers intended democratic government.
The founding fathers were for the most part religious and righteous men. But their core values were shaped in the 18th century. Those core values believed that blacks were 3/5 of a man, women were subservient to men and lacked the intelligence to make critical decisions, Indians were mere savages to be denied the rights of man.
Modern judges trying to get inside the minds of the founding fathers is mere fantasy. The founding fathers had no concept of what our society is like and what it's needs are. To apply a What Would Jesus Do? Methodology is merely using the founding fathers to support your political opinions. For the most part, if you asked the founding fathers how to resolve modern challenges you would get piss poor advice