America's True Heroes

Authors Note: This piece is a letter to the Founding Fathers about what I would tell them. Most of the letter is about what I would have done rather than what they did.

Dear Founding Father’s

I want to start off this letter by thanking you for everything you have gave us like , The Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and all of the freedoms. There are some things that you did that I thought weren’t some of the smartest things when the colonist first settled. You gave the Indians blankets that were contaminated with small pox and you told the Indians it was a present, that really isn’t one of the nicest things you did when you first settled. Alongside giving the Indians infected blankets you also allowed slavery which later led to the Civil War and almost the destruction of our country . Despite you creating the laws and bills that made and created our country to be so successful, you also almost destroyed it without banning slavery.

Slavery was a massive thing back in the late 1700’s, most if not all of the Founding Fathers were salve owners. There were some notable names that were against slavery like Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Jon Adams. Despite Benjamin Franklin being  against slavery he and Benjamin Rush set up a program against slavery. During the program it later got slavery banned in some states including Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. After a while many of states started abolishing slavery and later Rufus King and George Washington signed a law which prohibited slavery in the Midwestern States, but not the Southern States. Slavery is one of the things the Founding Fathers could have improved on, such as maybe not being slave owners themselves or banning slavery all together right away as it started to become popular.

Although the Founding Fathers of America made some mistakes along the way are still the ones that created our country to make it so successful today. That is why the Founding Fathers should be recognized as some of America’s true hero’s.

Sincerely,

Jake M