<<He also owned lots of slaves and DNA evidence proves he had sex with some of them.>> One of them..
Of which each child of that long affair were freed on his death.
And that family line still survives and has been fully accepted by the recognized white Jefferson line.
Regards his not freeing all his slaves on his death, that pisses me off.
***Jefferson is NOT! a hero of mine.****
My interest is only in his intellect that i separate totally from his realities of his life.
He was a man of major contradiction.
On the one damning slavery as evil and saying one day Amerioca would pay a terrible price for it's having a slave society.
He gushes about the noble "indian" but set up the seeds of their destruction and said its them or us.
i have a recent post where i am damned for my Hubris for comparison to Tom Jefferson and my retort was i CONSIDER MYSELF BETTER THAN Thomas Jefferson.
False humility is NOT my game.
Also it is time that history recognizes that it was George Washington that not only freed ALL his slaves at the time of his death, but in his Will gave them ALL an inheritance such they could have step up into entering the world of The Free.
This was stunning event at the time, a POWERFUL statement with ACTION not words, by George Washington.
i feel this fact had almost been erased from history as the South wanted this to be blotted out, taken off the record.
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Thomas Jefferson, the contradiction: it was Jeferrson that proposed to the Viginian contingent that they fight to banish slavery, but aside from George Mason, they all shouted him down and he backed off.
The hero in all this, at the writing of the Constitution, is George Mason, who REFUSED to sign a document that did not banish slavery, and he became known as the reverse of John Hancock. John Hancock wrote his name in largeness, and sweep, and George Mason, put his pen down and refused to sign, on moral grounds that slavery was an unspeakable evil institution.
Max
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