Charles Carroll of Carrollton
“Why keep alive the question of slavery? It is admitted by all to be a great evil.”
The only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. He was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Maryland and although he wasn’t present to vote for it he did sign on August 2, 1776. He was a slave holder and a very rich plantation owner. He was definitely a “do as I say not as I do” person about slavery.
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