seriesofnonsequiturs:

autismgender:

bana05:

ofhouseadama:

I love when people try to excuse founding fathers for owning slaves and trying to say they were really against slavery and weren’t all that bad when one of their contemporaries and “forgotten” founding father Robert Carter III manumitted all his slaves, gave them the land he felt he owed them as well as training and apprenticeships, and was promptly ostracized from Virginia and political society by the likes of Jefferson for making them look like assholes. Jefferson and Washington and all of them could have freed their slaves. They could have abolished slavery. They didn’t. Stop excusing them and the atrocities they committed. 

The fact manumission was ILLEGAL is some serious savagery.

How about we stop being apologists for anyone who owned slaves in the first place? Ever think of that?

Here’s a book about him