The progression of this country has changed the goal to include everyone when it comes to freedom.
Lemons wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:57 pm Thomas Jefferson was a white supremacist. Read this paper I’m going to link. His words…..If you don’t read Jefferson’s writings I’ll try and summarize - He starts off with talking about literal color of skin and why he determines that Whites are more attractive and smell better.I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. …
Sample of what Jefferson thought “ But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never see even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture. In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time, and they have been found capable of imagining a small catch. Whether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated harmony, is yet to be proved.”
He gets a lot of credit for his “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights”. But he did not see the Black man as equal to him and if slaves were to be freed he wanted them colonized in Africa or elsewhere so blood was not mixed.
That fear of British colonialism was a separate issue. They were right to fear England, the tiny country got their paws in every country out there. These writings of Jefferson aren’t about that.
https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the ... inia-1788/
BobCobbMagob wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:48 pm He meant white slavery.
He was still from the Britannia age, but he was making a new country with 85% remaining the same as British society, just less taxes…
“Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves“
The ability to protect themselves was part of how they thought they would accomplish never becoming slaves. Another reason they made it illegal for Black people to have guns unless during a military exercise.
We’re still trying to not be slaves, we just make sure that goes for everyone on earth.Lemons wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:32 pm
These didn’t age very well.
1. Free people who are armed and disciplined is a difficult thing to accomplish.
2. Not true. Free men need to be debarred the use of guns all the time.
3. I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
This is just gross. An abolitionist named Moncure Conway, noting Jefferson’s enduring reputation as a would-be emancipator, remarked scornfully, “Never did a man achieve more fame for what he did not do.” He had no intention of freeing his slaves and continued his child abuse, child labor and slavery.
In the 1790’s when Jefferson was going over his profit and loss statements he realized he was making a 4 percent profit every year when another Black child was born. A win/win for Jefferson. Jefferson sees slavery as an investment strategy for his future.
“ He writes that an acquaintance who had suffered financial reverses “should have been invested in negroes.” He advises that if the friend’s family had any cash left, “every farthing of it [should be] laid out in land and negroes, which besides a present support bring a silent profit of from 5. to 10. per cent in this country by the increase in their value.””
When Jefferson died in 1826, 39 years after he claimed slavery should be abolished, his slaves were auctioned off. Children were separated from their parents. Wives from husbands. Jefferson knew this would happen. He was an evil man and the excuse of “those were the times” doesn’t fit.
It’s a good read from the Smithsonian.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... -35976004/
