The founding fathers and slavery

During the revolutionary period the founding fathers did several things that effected slavery. These effects were stemmed from both the good and bad sides of the issue. On the good side of the spectrum during the drafting of the Constitution only a few of the founding fathers felt that slavery was necessary for the survival of the colonies according to William Freehling. On the other side of this the founding father Jefferson knew that free …

…of them truly attempting to abolish slavery. Even Jefferson who had good intentions at heart let his own beliefs about blacks stop him from freeing his own slaves and the causing the freedom of slaves to be done by others after a twenty year period. It is clear that in an attempted to help the country and abolish slavery the founding father truly hurt the colonies and started what would soon become the civil war.