While some like the NYT and their 1619 project try to paint the US as happily filled with slavers, the reality is that there was already plenty of division arou

While some like the NYT and their 1619 project try to paint the US as happily filled with slavers, the reality is that there was already plenty of division around the time of the US revolution. Indeed there were even slave owners like Thomas Jefferson who expressed reservations publicly. He called it “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot." Did he do anything about his own plantation? Well, no. That's the rub. But his writings show that opinions were pretty negative already. Actions, though, took a long time to follow.