America does backflips to protect the honor of the founders and their relationship to slavery. Most of them owned slaves, we hear about how “conflicted” they were about slavery. Washington used slave teeth to make up his dentures and only freed his slaves after death; he tracked down a runaway slave (Ona Judge) and tried to force her return as quietly as possible so as not to damage his reputation. I can find some relatively benign actors like John Jay but they are few. Jefferson was a rapist though he probably didn’t think he did anything wrong. He went to great lengths to seek advantage for Virginia slaveowners of which he was one of the largest.