Why didn't the Founders get rid of slavery when they wrote the Constitution?

The Civil War with Kevin Yaney by Kevin Yaney

Episode notes

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?