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Should the Founding Fathers have pushed for the abolishment of the slave trade?

The founding fathers were aware that slavery was against the ideals of the Revolution but they omitted that debate from Congress in fear that it might break up the new nation. They opted instead to leave that debate unitl 1804, the problem was that slavery was becoming progressively harder to abolish as more slaves were brought to the U.S. and relocating them(this was an option back then) would have become more dificult. Many founding fathers wanted to abolish slavery, in fact Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter near the end of his life calling for the abolishing of the slave trade. 

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The union would have been thrown into civil war right after a revolution.

They did consider it though.

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