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The takeaway is that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, and the US is therefore evil and must be destroyed.
The purchase of African slaves from Arabs and other Africans was the worst crime in the history of the world.
No one but African Negroes was ever enslaved. It was uniquely evil. The living ancestors of these slaveowners are equally guilty for this, the worst crime in the history of the world.
All white people must immediately give everything they own to an American Negro and become slaves of same.
The slave does not dream of freedom; the slave dreams of becoming a master.
American Negros are still the slaves of these past injustices, in their hearts, and they dream not of justice but of becoming masters.
Slavery existed in the US from 1789 until 1865, or seventy-six (76) years. The American Negro’s self-imposed slavery of the mind has existed from 1789 to the present, some 229 years and counting.
GTF over it.
Good grief, I said “ancestors” when I meant “descendants.”
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I toured Monticello yesterday and our guide made things uncomfortable.
Apparently the word ‘slave’ is now politically incorrect - she always used the term ‘enslaved person’.
I learned that although Thomas Jefferson was very happy in his 10-year marriage (according to his writings), Martha left no writings and she bore 6 children during that time and was ill during and between the pregnancies so “shrug” we don’t know whether she was happy or not.
I also learned that TJ essentially raped Sally Hemings since the imbalance of power meant that she could not give consent.
I also heard slavery of that time compared to the modern day issues of immigration and “mass incarceration”.
I wanted to hear the facts (good, bad, and ugly) of what occurred during Jefferson’s life, but I don’t need to hear a tour guide’s viewpoint injected into it.