Barbaric. Is this true?
You would have thought that while Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence, he might have given some consideration to these people, but hypocrisy and dichotomy was the norm for that era.
They respected the Idea of freedom when it applied to them, but not when it applied to others.
Funny, we are still having that problem.
Jefferson was dead before his hillbilly nephews murdered that slave. There’s a very good book about this. My point was simply that Jefferson had some dicey relatives - not that he was dicey himself.