Perspective: The Constitution sanctioned some of the most politically progressive ideas in history. It also blessed slavery.
This question is even more important given that Presidents’ Day occurs during Black History Month. These joint commemorations are testaments to a complex truth that Americans have long struggled to understand and accept, which is that America’s founding is neither categorically good or bad. It is both.
Yet, both he and many of his contemporaries also promoted and protected the nation’s original sin, slavery, an institution that contradicted the expressed values of the new nation and placed the country on a collision course that nearly destroyed it. In addition, Washington as president asked Congress to pass a Fugitive Slave Act. At that time, the Constitution already possessed a Fugitive Slave Clause in Article 4 Section 23, but Washington thought this clause needed to be strengthened with legislation.
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