...many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress,. Prints & Photographs Division. National Humanities Center ▫ Photographs of Enslaved African Americans,

LOC provides "A slave auction at Richmond, Virginia" , "Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves" , "Inspection and sale of a negro", and other horrible images among many.

... the great majority of slave ships leaving British North America came from Rhode Island ports.

History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities

enslaved people in Galveston, Texas did not know about the Emancipation Proclamation until this Union army general arrived two and a half years later and announced it to the public.