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To: loveliberty2

” Remember,Thomas Jefferson was only 33 years old when he penned our Declaration of Independence which capsulized a truly revolutionary idea into a simple statement that survives to this day to inspire people all over the world to strive for liberty!”

Remember, Thomas Jefferson owed close to 700 slaves during his lifetime. Freeing only ten of them. Five were freed while he was alive, the other five after his death.


10 posted on 12/01/2019 12:32:25 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

Remember, in Virginia it was illegal to give a slave his freedom. Thomas Jefferson tried to overturn that in the House of Burgesses.


15 posted on 12/01/2019 3:42:52 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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