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That panel stated, “The men who wrote the U.S. Constitution created a document based on the ideal of liberty, but liberty and enslavement were bitterly intertwined.” It describes how Britain outlawed the slave trade before the United States and that even though the U.S. stopped importing slaves in 1808, the number of slaves continued to increase “including births to enslaved women resulting from rape by white men and forced breeding.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/07/15/slavery-panels-swapped-under-cover-darkness-philadelphias-independence-park/