The Founders and Slavery

[Leslie Goldstein]

Was this fire not much later than the time period  being disucssed
w/respect to Tom Jefferson and his fears?
Leslie

Joan Del Fattore wrote:
>
>      There's also the usual conflation of politics and economics.
> Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, the national headquarters of the
> Abolitionist movement, was burned by an unlikely combination of nativists
> and Irish immigrants, all of whom feared an influx of cheap labor if
> the slaves were suddenly freed.  Many of the nativists belonged to the
> Native American Party while the Irish Catholics tended to be Democrats,
> but that wasn't the point.