@[email protected] to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agoAmericans, if you put yourself in the shoes of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and their ilk at the founding of this country, what questions do you think they would have for the leaders of today?message-square59fedilinkarrow-up175
arrow-up175message-squareAmericans, if you put yourself in the shoes of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and their ilk at the founding of this country, what questions do you think they would have for the leaders of today?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI think it’s unproductive to treat the founding fathers as a monolith. What Franklin and Hamilton believed was markedly different than the likes of Patrick Henry or Jefferson
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoA large majority of the founders would disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves
I think it’s unproductive to treat the founding fathers as a monolith. What Franklin and Hamilton believed was markedly different than the likes of Patrick Henry or Jefferson
A large majority of the founders would disagree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves