Acknowledged convenience of slaveholding outweighed stated moral principles even for liberty champions

Evidence

Patrick Henry, who declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” acknowledged the power of the convenience of slave ownership: “I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.” … He decided to live with the moral compromise without attempting to justify the servitude: “I will not-I cannot justify it, however culpable my conduct” (Pavao, 2014). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 118

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘inconvenience’ framing echoes Bandura’s concept that self-interest economics override moral principles - connects to any vault claim about self-interest eroding stated values.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 118