I'm sure the distinction did not make much difference to the enslaved.
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"Look, yes I am going to whip your bare back for looking at the white women for just a bit too long but the good news is in about 60 years there will be a major civil war which will lead to just 3 more years of slavery & then 130+ yrs of more oppression & injustice. Feel better?"
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Yes. It was widely believed in the 18th century that slavery was on the way out. The cotton gin revived it and changed the politics.
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I don’t know if statues should come down but Jefferson in context is so important imo for teaching that great ideas are often greater than great men and closing the gap between our ideals and our reality is the main work of the American experiment.
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Maybe, but I look at is more along the lines of "as long as it continues to make me money, and afford me this wealthy lifestyle, I ain't rockin' the boat."
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IOW, "on the way out, just not as long as I am benefiting from slavery." So, not in my lifetime, but MAYBE in my children's lifetime. Or grandchildren. Or......
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It's not odd. Washington and Jefferson founded the United States; Lee and Davis fought against it. That's the distinction that will bring down the Confederate statues while keeping the founders. It has little to do with their attitudes toward slavery, for better or worse.
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"GENERAL PICKNEY thought himself bound to declare candidly that he did not think South Carolina would stop her importations of slaves in any short time, but only stop them occasionally as she now does." -- August, 1787
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