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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

This is a great article that demonstrates how very intentionally brutal and financially motivated Jefferson was. I highly recommend reading it. The disillusion meant surrounding Jefferson really came to ahead when his descendants finally had to admit that Sally Hemings was in fact, the mother of multiple children fathered by Jefferson.

Sally was an enslaved person; consent does not even enter the conversation. She did not wish to leave France and only did so to secure freedom for some of her family. And who were her family? They were Jeffersons family as well. Not only did he enslave Sally, but Sally was his dead wives, half sister. The Hemings family related in multiple way to Jefferson and his wife, yet, Jefferson subjected them to the same wicked punishments and sold them off as well. His flesh and blood.

Well, it may not be fair to compare Jefferson to somebody living today. It’s certainly fair to compare him to George Washington and other of their contemporaries who recognized the evils of slavery. Washington wanted to end slavery and freed his own slaves. He recognized the dependence of the southern economy on slaves and believed the best way to end slavery was to reform the southern economy.

If you go to the library of Virginia and comb through documents of their contemporaries, you will find many, many manumission documents and wills devising freedom, and they cite the evil inherent in slavery.

Jefferson wrote beautifully about beautiful ideals. Ideals that would only be available to white men. Ideals that he did not live. Now, more than ever it is important to understand the truth about our history and development as a nation. [/quote]
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