Jul 20, 2020
3 min read
The Bill of Rights Is a Slaveholders Document
There is no doubt there are slaveholder signatories to the Bill of Rights. In fact, likely more than half of the signatories were slaveholders. The portrayal of the Bill of Rights as a slaveholders document misses the point though. There is no argument it is to a great extent, if the definition is having numerous slaveholder signatories. Nonetheless, the Bill of Rights represents a shield for each citizen…
