How the Slaveholding Founders Really Felt About Slavery
The article adopts a revisionist interpretive stance centered on founders' private sentiments rather than systemic critique, using measured language ('angst,' 'guilt,' 'self-awareness') that frames slaveholders as morally conflicted rather than systemically culpable. The subtitle's promise of 'more self-awareness than you might expect' constructs a contrarian thesis that centers the subjective experience of enslavers.
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- This article does not address the material harms and deaths inflicted by slavery or enslaved people's own documented perspectives on their enslavement
- This article does not contextualize founders' expressions of guilt against their simultaneous legal protection and expansion of slavery
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Angst, guilt, and more self-awareness than you might expect
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