Agreed. Jefferson may have been flawed in written/spoken words on this subject, but in deeds he was always on the correct side of history with but one single exception, and that was his personal ownership.
Had the king been less rigid against earlier colonial attempts to abolish the slave trade and slavery(those prior to the revolution), Jefferson may have reached a point in his life where he would have paid his debts and emancipated his slaves.
When idealism is allowed to flourish at the time its most ideal, it changes the way people act. Instead, the king blocked him and the rest is history. All his idealism was instead poured into Independence.
Thanks!
My writings over the years have focused on the founding period and the exceptional efforts of those men and women who captured the spirit of liberty at that time.
Coincidentally, at that time, Burke, in his 1775 Speech on Conciliation, more than any, captured that spirit and the motivations from which it sprang.
Love Frothingham’s “Rise of the Republic. . . ,” in which he detailed what he described as, “the Christian idea of man”—the Source from which American liberty sprang.
Best to you in this season of discontent—or so it seems to me.
LL2