Am I well prepared to visit the local Tea Party rally and defend the beliefs of the founding fathers?

Slavery was an accepted way of life in early colonial America and other parts of the world. Without the work of slaves AND indentured servants from Europe, the growing economy of the colonies would have been limited. Not condoning it, just stating fact about life in that era.

It was a different time, you are using 20th century thought in an 18th century timeframe. Historians will tell you there were 7 Founding Fathers. Franklin, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, John Jay, Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

Franklin became an avid abolitionist, Washington often privately expressed a dislike for slavery, Adams never bought slaves, Jay sought to abolish slavery and raised two sons that are routinely defined as two of the most significant American abolitionists of the 19th century, Madison served as President of the American Colonization Society which sought to help free blacks, and Hamilton saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable. Thomas Jefferson is the only one that wasn't "enlightened" by our Revolution. I think that hardly defines our Founding Fathers as "racist".

For one, there were several hundred men that could be considered "founding fathers" some of whom opposed the practice (the Quakers being the most outspoken). It had little to do with classifying them as 3/5ths of a person, and more to do with preventing southern/middle states from using slave numbers as a means of gaining an unfair number of representatives in the House. As far as it can be determined, the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemmings can't be considered rape.

Condemnation of the slave trade was removed from the Declaration of Independence in order to keep South Carolina from going over to the British.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.