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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If he knew how immoral slavery was that makes him worse, not better.
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Yeah I’m pretty positive most relationships with people you owned were non-consensual. Hard to have any other type of relationship with what was considered property. Doesn’t make it right but Jefferson also wasn’t unique in that respect.
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Well, I say dubiously because of that inherent problem. That said, we don't actually know what she wanted.
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Often more than 2 sides.
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And America itself had two sides, really many sides. But despite the realities of what America was when it separated from the British Empire, it was ultimately conceived in liberty in plain and undeniable language. For that, "all honor to Jefferson."
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Yeah, I don't want Jefferson "cancelled." I prefer to remind people that you cannot take him whole without swallowing a lot of awful things. His hypocrisy, his schemes & vendettas, his errors - all the stuff that was bad by the lights of his own day - is part of the story.
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IIRC, Jefferson's grandson Jeff Randolph drafted and proposed legislation in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832 for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Virginia. But the political fallout from the Nat Turner slave rebellion in 1831 undermined that initiative.
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Damn you, Dan. You know that’s one side too many. Cancelled!
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