I suspect that it might not be immediately apparent how studying Jefferson can fuel a body of scholarship that deals with race.Or, it may be apparent, but a person might not want to have to deal with him to get to the topic of race and slavery. But TJ really can be a black topic.https://twitter.com/CulturedModesty/status/1168192336448446465 …
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EG: “Notes on The State of Virginia”
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And we love tracing things back to a particular source to attach blame, but this goes back before his writings. It’s much deeper and more ingrained than that.
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Everything TJ said was in the books of French philosophes , David Hume, Edward Long & others. We’re too America-centric
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Well, yes - and no. The Founders, while drawing on that legacy, carried forward those toxic notions even as they proposed something they believed to be new
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Jefferson on First Nations is also a rich vein. He admired them but thought they had to be eliminated, "unfortunately."
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Unless they married white people.
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