Jefferson contributed a lot to America. As with Andrew Jackson, you can recognize that without defending the many awful things in his life, his record & his thinking. https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1194266515736088581 …
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On slavery, Jefferson was a slaveowner, had a dubiously-consensual affair with his slave by whom he fathered children, & balked at abolition. He also banned the slave trade & wrote the first federal slavery ban, in the Northwest Ordinance. With Jefferson, there's always 2 sides.
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That would be Madison.
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