alt Hacker Newsnot all of them, as 15 of the 56 signers of the Declaration did not own slaves.
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not all of them, as 15 of the 56 signers of the Declaration did not own slaves.
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Of those 15, it might be illuminating to know how many did not on grounds of principle versus merely that the cost/benefit didn't favour it for them at that time?