FOUNDNG FATHERS as Slave Owners

There were 55 FOUNDING FATHERS representing the 13 Colonies that declared INDEPENDENCE from GREAT BRITAIN.  Of those 55, the following owned slaves at the time the Declaration of Independence and our US Constitution was drafted.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

1. Charles Carroll - Maryland
2. John Adams - Massachusetts
3. Samuel Chase - Maryland
4. Samuel Adams - Massachusetts
5. Benjamin Franklin - Pennsylvania
6. Oliver Ellsworth - Connecticut
7. Button Gwinnett - Georgia
8. Alexander Hamilton - New York
9. John Hancock - Massachusetts
10. Robert Treat Paine - Massachusetts
11. Patrick Henry - Virginia
12. Thomas Paine - Pennsylvania
13. John Jay - New York
14. Roger Sherman - Connecticut
15. Thomas Jefferson - Virginia
16. Richard Henry Lee - Virginia
17. James Madison - Virginia
18. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney - South Carolina
19. Benjamin Rush - Pennsylvania
20. Edward Rutledge - South Carolina
21. George Washington - Virginia

Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington based on the critical and substantive roles they played in the formation of the country's new government....  all of which were SLAVE OWNERS...

According to a study of the biographies by Caroline Robbins:
The Signers came for the most part from an educated elite, were residents of older settlements, and belonged with a few exceptions to a moderately well-to-do class representing only a fraction of the population. Native or born overseas, they were of British stock and of the Protestant faith.

It was these SLAVE OWNERS that wrote our US CONSTITUTION and considered the slaves to be property and not citizens of the country...  at least at the time...  they reconsidered later to reverse their thoughts in 1863...  some 87 years later...  ain't we lucky that they changed their minds.