Personally i think same sex marriage is a horrible thing, man was made for woman and woman was made for man, that's good and right, but when you mix it up and make man for man, it bad and wrong, but woman for woman is just sexy, hot, and wrong 😉 and that's just my opinion.
But i do have ne gay friend and he's got a good personality, therefore i wouldn't want to send him to the moon 👆
Well Fire, to answer your question, they knew better. During the 3/5 compromise (which had slaves count as 3/5 of a person) the south got better voting represenation, so they knew, in their hearts, that they were people. But when it cam to freeing them, the colonies decided that slavery would not be absolved...so they knew that they were people, just refusedd to admit it.