[Enlightened1]

Lincoln came after the founders.

I don’t think Ben Franklin ever owned slaves.

[hinckley buzzard]

I think he was being sarcastic but in case he wasn't, no, many of the Founding Fathers were from slave free parts of New England. Franklin, John Adams, Sam Adams, Thomas Payne, Paul Revere, none of them had slaves.

[ConservativeDude]

of the signers of the Declaration, of those that we know their views on slavery, there were more abolitionists than slavery apologists.