Part of what the #1619Project tries to do, especially lead essay by @nhannahjones, is expand our notion of who counts as "the Founders." James Forten didn't see slavery as a necessary evil. Or Richard Allen, or Absalom Jones. https://jstor.org/stable/4491598 
This is why the project can useful in the classroom, as a way of engaging students in the questions of who "the Founders" were, who counts as having founded the nation.
"[Richard] Allen lived in Jefferson's day, so he is not a presentist when he critiqued slavery and racism. If he is not in our history books, we are false to the past -- and the promise of America." Richard Newman on Allen as a Founder: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/51421 
Black Founding Fathers: An Interview with Richard S. Newman

Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology.  His most recent book, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (NYU...

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/51421
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