All of the following are true statements about the Enlightenment, except: c)Its ideas were used to justify the institution of slavery in the colonies. Slavery was completely independent of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment Age did start in Europe (a) and it did eventually make its way to the United States after some time (b) and the Founding Fathers of the United States used the ideas of the Enlightenment extensively when creating the Constitution of the United States (d).