
Slavery and the Constitution
Clip: 1/24/2020 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Nearly all of the framers of the U.S. constitution owned slaves.
Even the framers of the constitution recognized that slavery was against the values of the American revolution. So why did most of the nation's founding fathers own slaves? Judge Douglas Ginsburg sheds some light on the subject.
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Slavery and the Constitution
Clip: 1/24/2020 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Even the framers of the constitution recognized that slavery was against the values of the American revolution. So why did most of the nation's founding fathers own slaves? Judge Douglas Ginsburg sheds some light on the subject.
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