He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He believed that Africans were the moral and intellectual equal of whites. He argued that slavery must end so that America could become the beacon of freedom it professed to be. He believed that God would not allow the sin of slavery to go unpunished. This founding father would also continue to be a slaveholder until well after the United States won the Revolutionary War. O James Otis O Benjamin Rush O Edward Biddle O Henry Laurens

He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He believed that Africans were the moral and intellectual equal of whites. He argued that slavery must end so that America could become the beacon of freedom it professed to be. He believed that God would not allow the sin of slavery to go unpunished. This founding father would also continue to be a slaveholder until well after the United States won the Revolutionary War. O James Otis O Benjamin Rush O Edward Biddle O Henry Laurens