I can’t believe you just typed that. The white men who owned slaves got to use each one of their slaves as 2/3 of another vote. So if a white slave owner had 1,000 slaves he got 1 vote for himself PLUS 660 MORE VOTES for his slaves. Yeah, that was liberty at its finest. Then he could arrest, maybe even get the death penalty for the two gay guys that lived in the cottage on the other side of the meadow. Because he heard what sounded like the two of them having Sex when he was hunting near their house. He could rape and kill any black slaves because they were his property. He could probably also do that with his wife, who may have also been property. If he caught a Native American and another white guy having sex or with a mixed child, he could get them arrested and probably the death penalty, too. But, hey, no one could enter his house without a warrant. You didn’t need a warrant for anyone that wasn’t white, either. Because that’s what liberty was. The original constitution really only applied to white men, and to a lesser extent white women. Anything else you see and hear in TV and Movies is inaccurate propaganda.
Just sayin.
American didn’t start off that free.