1783, Atlanta. That's a legacy worth protecting. And I was thinking the other day, what would the Founders think if they visited us today? Well, they would see that Slavery had been abolished [in the United States]. They would see that Americans without land and then women and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights. That American leadership in science and discovery had propelled knowledge and technology to unimaginable heights. (02:37–02:41)
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Asserts that slavery has been abolished in the U.S.
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