Stagione 1
Why didn't the Founders get rid of slavery when they wrote the Constitution?
Selena Helvey and Kevin Yaney address the question: Why did the Founders of the United States, who had risked their lives to pursue the idea of liberty for all people, allow slavery to be the law of the land when they could have abolished it in the Constitution of the United States?
Kevin Yaney and host, Selena Helvey, talk about the issue of slavery and why it caused the American Civil War when its abolishment in other parts of world came about through peaceful means.