Posted on 05/24/2019 6:56:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrat hopeful Pete Buttigieg removing Thomas Jefferson's memory from the public square and ending the practice of naming public events in his honor. The legacy of Jefferson, he said, is "problematic." "There's a lot to admire in his thinking and his philosophy," he said, "but then again if you plunge into his writings, especially his notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew slavery was wrong."
It's a stunning display of his ignorance, certainly. But interestingly, Buttigieg has unknowingly pinpointed precisely why Thomas Jefferson should be eternally revered by our society, which believes that enslaving other human beings is wrong.
That is, that Jefferson knew that it was wrong at the time.
Thomas Sowell explains, brilliantly as ever:
Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century[.] ...
Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others. Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century — and only then in Western civilization.
Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other American leaders. You could research all of 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there.
In other words, these prominent men having turned against an institution that had been normal throughout human history was an expression of a revolutionary idea. To imagine that the idea that slavery is morally wrong would be embraced by everyone overnight,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I can’t even get feminists to honestly discuss ISIS sex slaves and Muslim theocracies aping fictional Gilead in a book group discussion of “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
That’s despite Atwood admitting she was equally inspired by Iran’s theocratic revolution with the Shah as she was by Jerry Falwell, per vicious liberal stereotyping of conservative Christians as wannabee Taliban.
I read it in a very old book, in which remembrances of people from the household, including former slaves, were documented. It was an open secret ‘in the neighborhood’.
If you can find a good University library - one which still has actual *books* - you can read things that were written back when biographers and historians still cared about Truth, instead of ‘political correctness’.
That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued.
https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/lincoln-and-colonization.html
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