I,as a strict originalist and conservative,always struggle with this fact. Dealing with this at the convention would have saved this country from much of the mess we have now. Don't ask me how it could be done in a agricultural and pre-Industrial Revolution society. It would be nice if life begins at conception written into the Constitution also but the Founders had no concept of a mother who murders her baby but for hanging her if she did.
Slavery in America, if one objectively looks at it from a historical perspective, is the BEST thing that has ever happened to the black race. It placed them at the table of the modern world and has given their descendants the opportunity to achieve equal status with the other races. How, when, and why this happened as it did no longer matters. We all have to live in TODAY’S world and focusing on that is how one stays afloat. That some choose to dwell on the past is their problem and is totally non productive to society as a whole.