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<title>FCC: A tribute to our fathers and their desire to end Slavory (by JC)</title>
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<h1 id="title">Our Founding Fathers</h1>
<h2>The men who made abolition possible.</h2>
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<figcaption id="img-caption">The founding fathers as they debated our nation and it's Bill of Rights that would ultimatly be used to abolish slavory.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Time line of events:</p>
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<li><strong>1775</strong> - Founding of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (PAS), the world's first antislavery society and the first Quaker anti-slavery society. Benjamin Franklin becomes Honorary President of the Society in 1787.</li>
<li><strong>1775</strong> - Thomas Paine speaks out against slavery and joins the PAS with Benjamin Rush.</li>
<li><strong>1776</strong> - The United States declares its indepenance from Englang (Who pushed slavory in all of its colonies to support the homeland).</li>
<li><strong>1780</strong> - Gradual Emancipation Act passed in Pennsylvania.</li>
<li><strong>1786</strong> - Publication in London of An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African, by Thomas Clarkson. Quickly reprinted in the United States, it is the single most influential antislavery work of the late 18th century.</li>
<li><strong>1787</strong> - Northwest Ordinance bans slavery in the newly organized territory ceded by Virginia.
<li><strong>1787</strong> - Founding in London of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
<li><strong>1787</strong> - Philadelphia free blacks establish the Free African Society in Philadelphia, the first independent black organization and a mutual aid society.
<li><strong>1787</strong> - The ratified U.S. Constitution allows a male slave to count as three-fifths of a man in determining representation in the House of Representatives. The Constitution sets 1808 as the earliest date for the national government to ban the slave trade. Rhode Island outlaws the slave trade.
<li><strong>1787</strong> - William Wilberforce becomes the Parliamentary leader and begins a ten-year campaign to abolish Britain's slave trade.</li>
<li>Abridged for speed...</li>
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"I wish that [plight of Indians] was the only blot in our moral history, and that no other race had higher charges
to bring against us. I am not apt to despair; yet I see not how we are to disengage ourselves from that
deplorable entanglement, we have the wolf by the ears and feel the danger of either holding or letting him
loose. I shall not live to see it but those who come after us will be wiser than we are, for light is spreading and
man improving. to that advancement I look, and to the dispensations of an all-wise and all-powerful providence
to devise the means of effecting what is right.""</p>
<p>-- Thomas Jefferson to Lydia Sigourney, 1824 July 18</p>
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"All men are created equal." <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript" target="_blank">The Declaration of Indepenance.</a>.
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