A few points about this article:
1) gee guys...you’re about 30 years late. That’s when the PC Revisionists started attacking Southern history. I didn’t hear a word from y’all about it even though I and practically every other Southerner warned you what would be next.
2) Ben Franklin may have publicly professed his antislavery sentiments but he was not about to turn away ad revenue for his many newspapers for the slave trade. That earned him a lot of money.
3) It was not just George, South Carolina and North Carolina who lobbied for a 20 year grandfather clause before the abolition of the slave trade in the constitution. New England slave traders lobbied every bit as vigorously for it too. How come that never gets mentioned?
The NE states always fought to keep the slave trade when other states wanted to stop it. Because of course they were the traders.