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On the recordJanuary 23, 2011
We know that was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that was an evil and it was a scourge and a blot and a stain upon our history. But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.
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Michele Bachmann
Republican · Minnesota

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Bachmann acknowledges the existence of slavery at the nation's founding but claims that the founders worked to abolish it.

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