In today’s political conversation we are being told that the United States was founded upon slavery and that the U.S. Constitution is a pro-slavery document. However, the Founding Fathers expected slavery to be abolished from the United States in their lifetimes, and Frederick Douglass states that according to him, and his studies of the Constitution, it is not a pro-slavery document. A young man calling himself a communist discussed his position on this issue with me, and I talk about that discourse in this episode, along with going over the War Between the States, and Amendment 13 which outlawed slavery in the United States, and Amendment 14, Section 1 including the citizenship clause.
