re: Help on this question in my daughter's AP US History class.

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if the founding fathers had gone against the rest of the world and not allowed slavery blacks would not have been imported into the United States and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor would never have been born. Problem solved.

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FAR more slaves were imported to North America in th century-and-a-half BEFORE 1789 than in the 19-year period between 1789 and the import ban implemented in 1808.

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Again . . . I took AP classes and on any given question you can argue the affirmative or the negative. Any of you morons ever take a debate class?

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Too many people would rather wallow in their own faux martyrdom than use their brains for something other than a hat rack.

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Too many people would rather wallow in their own faux martyrdom than use their brains for something other than a hat rack.

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"There's something magical about AP classes that prevents teachers from letting their political biases influence how they grade."

I would suggest that the answer to the question has nothing to do with the founding fathers and slavery what is 100% the responsibility of Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and the main stream media who have perpetrated lies.

All of this would be in conjunction with the development of the criminal and his actions that led to his death.

Of course all of these assertions can be backed up by significant research.

I think it was that was written your child would get a D at best based on the political leanings of the teacher regardless of the quality of the work

My alternate history answer was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but a practical answer would explore whether the FF could have done anything differently regarding the slavery issue.

They were founding a federal republic, not a unitary national government. They were attempting to weld 13 VERY different jurisdictions into a functioning nation.
The colonies would NOT have EVER agreed to a unitary system and would NEVER all have agreed to abolition of slavery. As far as limiting slavery, they did more than I would have thought possible. In particular, they enshrined into the Constitution authority for Congress to ban the import of more slaves, which Congress DID fairly-soon thereafter.

We can say that the 3/5 Compromise might have been done differently (and perhaps that is true), but the 3/5 Compromise wasn't really related to continuation of the institution. The nonsense about "3/5 of a person" is just rhetorical silliness.

New York (and its hangers-on) wanted slaves counted for taxation purposes, but not for apportioning the House. Virginia (and its coalition) wanted them counted for apportioning the House, but NOT for taxation. Yet the coalition that didn't want them counted AT ALL for voting purposes has since been framed as the "good guys."

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My alternate history answer was a bit tongue-in-cheek

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I gave you a B+ on the earlier. A- for this!

1789 was 231 years ago. Nobody alive today was on the Earth then. If people would take accountability for their own actions and stop blaming others, we wouldn't have the problems we have today.

I would go over-the-top the other way. How all minorities should be released from jail, not be arrested for any crime, and legally allowed to take YTS property with no repurcussions.

Bogus question as what occurred in 2020 is completely irrelevant to slavery over a century earlier, any comparison has nothing to do with education and is a distraction and exercise in indoctrination.