That’s good. The important thing was not that Jefferson or anybody else owned slaves...and at that time even free blacks in some English speaking areas and in Spanish Florida owned slaves themselves...but what is important is everything else he did, thought and wrote, which has benefitted all Americans of any color.
But I guess that doesn’t matter anymore. Once the left puts you on their “racist” list, it’s all over.
Jefferson was a brilliant man, and even if you don’t agree with him on some things, he was crucial to the US. And that’s what people want to hear about.
There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves. There were more than 3,000 black slave owners in New Orleans alone and thousands more black slave owners. Some were slave breeders. They sold their own children into slavery.
In Massachusetts - YES - they were slavers - there was a slave market right there by Fanueil Hall. Oh, you didn’t hear about that in your tour of Boston?
If you owned a slave in Massachusetts, you could not set that slave free unless you posted a bond of $500 !! to ensure the slave wouldn’t become a ward of the state. That meant you had to continue to provide room and board for a slave if you couldn’t afford the bond.
Life was different then.