Check out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rocked (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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We can have little a christianity, as a treat

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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Multiple founding fathers were abolitionists. IIRC Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Payne were the main advocates against slavery in the constitution (some were even against the 3/5ths compromise).

The debate over the morality stretches back to ancient Greece. Spartans and Athenians would argue over it. We've always known it was wrong, but some people want to own slaves anyway and have to bend over backwards to justify it.