But no foreign power imposed slavery on the colonists (they didn’t rise up in a principled stand against slavery. In fact, we rose up partly because of British treaties with American Indians after the French and Indian War) or on the new country that punted the issue of slavery when it wrote and adopted the Constitution. Knowing full well that it was a little “peculiar” in the country that declared “all men are created equal” as it slid down the birth canal.