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To: koan who wrote (360262)	1/16/2018 4:38:33 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543150

Jefferson was a racist. *He believed that blacks were inferior* and did not do all that was in his power to persuade the VA government or the US government to abolish slavery. He had a working plantation and he was making money off of human bondage. Please don't sugar coat it with contradictions like, "Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty" with nonsensical statements like, "To Jefferson, it was anti-democratic and contrary to the principles of the American Revolution for the federal government to enact abolition". He was a brilliant man, a tolerant man, an enlightened man *when it came to the rights of white people*, and he is one of my favorite founding fathers. Yet he never freed but a few of his slaves and we really should call an 18th century slave-holding racist what he was. https://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-slavery#footnote15_yxm7zui