Charles Pinckney knew why the Revolution was fought–although I’m sure he left Blacks and Indians out of his equation. joepaulson says: February 13, 2015. Edit: Moors Sundry Act of 1790.

In 1911, when historian Max Farrand compiled his Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, he appended Pinckney’s document with a collection of countervailing evidence, concluding that “it is ...