The "liberty" Jefferson celebrated was the liberty of the "self-sufficient" gentleman farmer who is only self-sufficient bc of slave labor
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The fantasy of the antebellum South was a mock-feudal fantasy wherein "a man's home is his castle" in which he is truly free
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Yeah agreed. My freedom is more important than yours. Humans are hellish
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