Happy July 4th! Great day for a barbecue here in Milwaukee. However, before i fire up the grill, how about a sad but true historical fact about the author of the document we celebrate on this day. Having just finished an outstanding biography of Thomas Jefferson, I learned that despite his effort to abolish slavery by speaking and writing against it, throughout his life he owned 600 human beings; and at the time of his death, instead of freeing them, he had them sold. Below is Jefferson's 1769 ad offering a reward for the capture and return of one of his run away slaves. Honestly, i get no joy raining on someone's parade, but history is important, don't you think?
Previous Message
Re: July 4th Memo
Posted by Les on 7/4/2023, 6:44 pm, in reply to "July 4th Memo"
Ha, ha, looks like Sandy was a cantankerous enslaved guy. He was something of a horse jockey, insolent and disorderly when drunk, swears much, and his behavior is artful and knavish. Looks like Jefferson wanted posterity to see that he gave his enslaved people a lot of leeway. Ha, ha, took with him a white horse.
Jefferson seems to imply the squat, little guy was a pampered freewheeler. -
Previous Message
Happy July 4th! Great day for a barbecue here in Milwaukee. However, before i fire up the grill, how about a sad but true historical fact about the author of the document we celebrate on this day. Having just finished an outstanding biography of Thomas Jefferson, I learned that despite his effort to abolish slavery by speaking and writing against it, throughout his life he owned 600 human beings; and at the time of his death, instead of freeing them, he had them sold. Below is Jefferson's 1769 ad offering a reward for the capture and return of one of his run away slaves. Honestly, i get no joy raining on someone's parade, but history is important, don't you think?
Previous Message
Re: July 4th Memo
Posted by free gm on 7/5/2023, 12:14 pm, in reply to "July 4th Memo" Edited by board administrator 7/5/2023, 4:23 pm
Dead white enslaving bastard & pedophile.. That son of Kris Columbus and Mr The....Oops
I wonder what Sally Hemmings was doing while Jefferson was writing that ad? She was probably being forced . Just speculating