To be completely honest, I, too, am tired of comparing Jefferson to abolitionists. I'd much rather compare Jefferson to Friedrich Engels, who was also a member of a social class that grew fabulously wealthy from slave labor and came to... very different political conclusions. https://twitter.com/CarlPaulus/status/1469319365996724244 …
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the malign influence of aristotelianism strikes again
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I think that's probably right, combined with his position in the race and class hierarchy. Like, you could argue that there were elements of this in, say, DuBois's thought -- "talented tenth" -- but he took that in the direction of "and therefore they're the Leninist vanguard."
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I once remember a replies to Jane Coaston in the past has made the argument it was the certainty of his income stream. Jefferson of the 70s, 90s, and 00s had different opinions when his farmland was great vs poor since Tobacco saps the nutrients and it gets worse over time.
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Thus Jefferson began to make more money off other things like his nail factory, which in turn was still powered by slavery, and then motivated reasoning kicked in. Thus young man Jefferson was more opening to things than old man Jefferson.
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