It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: seasonal
Seems like an objective person would approach this understanding that it was legal to own other people in the 1700's and until the civil war in the 1860's, long after Jefferson's death. I view this like any other horrible item from the past, learn from it, don't repeat it.
Maybe because of the children he had with his deceased wife's slave? This may be the main reason that the left gets so riled up.
anusha.com...
I think it has more to do with an analogy to today. Jefferson was against slavery, but in order to maintain his own financial status he supported the system. There's a lot of people who support broken systems today because it benefits them.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Aazadan
I think it has more to do with an analogy to today. Jefferson was against slavery, but in order to maintain his own financial status he supported the system. There's a lot of people who support broken systems today because it benefits them.
In other words Jefferson was a hipocrit.
I am a hipocrit, it is impossible to not be especially if you have children.
a reply to: seasonal
Am I the only one reading this and wondering what it is that Jefferson said that is so horrible.
He owned slaves...as many did at that time.
No matter how much you attempt to rewrite history and "whitewash" it.... it's just a matter of putting makeup over a pimple.
Still there.
“Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend that University of Virginia students ‘are not of ordinary significance only: they are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country, and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes,’” Sullivan said in the email. “I encourage today’s U.Va. students to embrace that responsibility.”
originally posted by: goou111
Are people just looking for reasons to be offended? This is beyond stupid.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
nothing like throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Was Jefferson a nice guy? I'd say likely not. He owned slaves and ran up enormous debt holding fancy parties. He was an Aristocrat of the highest order.
Did Jefferson possess a brilliant mind? You bet your ass he did. And the legacy of this mind is his extensive library of writings. It'd be a shame to ignore it because we don't like the person he was. That has to be the least academic thing I have ever heard.
This is the kind of stuff that happens when you allow the school teachers to have lunch together....