The Founding Brothers tells the tales of the ordinary lives and challenges that the Founders or Framers faced. One of them was to ensure that the nation that they helped build would stand for the test of time. However, the author, Joseph Ellis, tries to give the reader a better understanding of the founders, that they are more than just men. They are more than white people that believed in white superiority. Instead, they are men that understood the problems that the country was facing after independence from the United Kingdom by a war. They fought each other tooth and nail over things that they believed needed to be done for the country or else this new republic will fall, like the Roman Republic. Nevertheless, they met each other to form political compromises that would build the strength and position of the new republic. Theses Compromises help settle many disputes that had threated to divide the new nation in half. Even though, it deals with issues that at the time should not be spoken, like slavery. They understood that the world was watching them and was waiting for what …show more content…
As any talk of slavery was like a curse that would spread like wildfire, which lead to it not being talked a lot about in public. It was a problem that the Founders faced in trying to deal with it. Especially, as Adam, Jefferson, and Franklin had to draw the first national emblem for the Continental Congress in 1776, “it contained immigrants from different cultures and no Blacks or Native Indians” (Ellis 101). They simply could not put anything that showed the slaves or it would cause problems with the Southern States, like succession from the union. Facing the challenge, they knew that the South was too economically independent on slavery and so was the national economy. Their only hope was for it to end in the future without