progressive hunter
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and yet all of them later formed the democrat party,,,mkh
when you say southern landowners you mean democrats right???I am certain that some but not all whites did impute such racism into the Declaration of Independence.
Some whites were indentured servants or slaves themselves, and some blacks had better or worse situations of employment than others. Not all blacks were slaves: some had good jobs and some were in business for themselves and hired other blacks. Some blacks might even have been thought to "own" other blacks as slaves.
At the beginning, blacks had some what more opportunities because the race was not yet firmly connected to slavery. That was a deliberate strategy of the southern landowners who innacted laws to that effect.
This was long before the Dem party was founded. Learn some history.