tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post3951153821824500354..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: One more thing worth making explicitEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-65599688794698463222012-12-03T07:11:45.948-05:002012-12-03T07:11:45.948-05:00btw - this is not a post about Jefferson. Let'...btw - this is not a post about Jefferson. Let's save any more conversation on this for the next time I talk about Jefferson.Daniel Kuehnhttp://www.factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-30550224010606552192012-12-03T06:34:24.186-05:002012-12-03T06:34:24.186-05:00I hope I never told you that Jefferson was opposed...I hope I never told you that Jefferson was opposed to slavery. I don't think I did.<br /><br />That was a great article - read it earlier today myself.<br /><br />I'm not too sure about your last sentence. That seems unnecessary strenuous for a guy that wanted a line about the problem of slavery in the Declaration and wasn't even there for the Constitution (yes, I know, he had contacts etc.)Daniel Kuehnhttp://www.factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-12122269670471356962012-12-02T20:42:44.040-05:002012-12-02T20:42:44.040-05:00Daniel,
A few weeks ago you didn't like what ...Daniel,<br /><br />A few weeks ago you didn't like what I had to say about T. Jefferson.<br /><br />Delong has now picked up my POV<br /><br />Further:<br /><br />Contrary to Mr. Wiencek’s depiction, Jefferson was always deeply committed to slavery, and even more deeply hostile to the welfare of blacks, slave or free. His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience. <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/opinion/the-real-thomas-jefferson.html?adxnnl=1&ref=opinion&adxnnlx=1354367663-bUY23J/MgRVMPiA7zSB63Q<br /><br /> In 1820 Jefferson was shocked by the heated arguments over slavery during the debate over the Missouri Compromise. He believed that by opposing the spread of slavery in the West, the children of the revolution were about to “perpetrate” an “act of suicide on themselves, and of treason against the hopes of the world.”<br /><br />If there was “treason against the hopes of the world,” it was perpetrated by the founding generation, which failed to place the nation on the road to liberty for all. No one bore a greater responsibility for that failure than the master of Monticello. <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904132869021579763noreply@blogger.com