(04-18-2018 08:17 AM)imjustafatkid Wrote:  We basically have a woman who killed murdering slavers, but apparently she's still bad because she was white. Looking back at history through this lens is a huge problem.

If we use the today lens.

The Founding Fathers of the US were an incredibly homogenous population.

If we use the lens of the late 18th century the diversity was amazing. You had Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Quakers, Lutherans, and Deists.

You had farmers, lawyers, importers, shop owners, slave holders, abolitionists, etc.

The diversity in religion carried with it suspicion the "others" would try to gain power and oppress them, the differences in beliefs about slavery created the same issue as did the diversity in their economic backgrounds.