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Posted by Fred G on Wed Oct 20 22:10:24 2021, in response to Re: Thomas Jefferson Statue, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Oct 20 15:58:06 2021. He died 5 years before the beginning of the US abolitionist movement and well before the more sinister acts such as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision. His contemporaries owned slaves and none of them saw the immorality of it. He reportedly raped Sally Hemings, his slave, and fathered children when she was "a minor". I use the scare quotes because in those days people got married in their teens and there was no "minor". People got married at ages we consider early because they only lived 45 years. So like most of our founding fathers, Jefferson has shit on him but his contributions to America outweigh his scumbaggery. It's not like we're talking Roger Taney here. |
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