>>17926187
I think it's fairly unlikely anyone was going to send 20% of the population back to Africa, this would've been a massive undertaking. The closest we got was Liberia and almost nobody wanted to resettle there because that would've been the equivalent of sending some second-generation British-Canadian to the Balkans

>>17919881
The Founding Fathers wouldn't have been surprised by this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_court_cases_in_the_United_States_involving_slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Vermont
The Abolitionist Movement predates the founding of the Country
The Founding Fathers inherited Slaves yes, but they were very much aware of the Abolitionist Movement
>>17920361
This

Abolitionism has highly influential because almost a quarter of the population of the US was black when the country was first founded, which is higher than it is today even. States like Vermont has outlawed slavery in 1777 and the rest of the North followed suit by 1810. It's actually more a question of why slavery persisted as long as it did.

>>17912046
>We built this country
There were more blacks here when it was founded than there are today as a total percentage of the population. Blacks fought alongside you in the Rhode Island Regiment against the British. States like Vermont had outlawed slavery before even joining the Union. They have just as much a right to be here as you do, and arguably have more of a right to be here than Ellis Islanders

>>17872560
As a percentage of the overall population, blacks actually made up more of the population in 1776 than they do today

America was never a white ethnostate. There was a higher percentage of blacks in America in 1776 than there is today
>B-but they were slaves!
Slavery was already outlawed and abolished in Northern States by 1810. Vermont had already abolished slavery by 1777. This is not a real argument.

America had a higher percentage of Africans back in 1776 than it does today by the way but retards still want to split hairs on whether or not America was always diverse or not