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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by chillwaves on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:04PM (#21831160)
That explanation would be more credible if Jefferson did not impregnate one of his slaves.

Hypocrisy of deed is not covered up by some fig leaf of convenient belief systems.

Wikipedia says he fathered 6 children with her. Do you honestly believe that he thought dark complexion was some seriously different subhuman race?

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Re:A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Unt... by bobbylarrybobby on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:43AM (#21832256)
Do you think horses don’t know that donkeys aren’t horses? And yet they can and do create mules. I imagine that’s how Jefferson felt; after all, there is a derogatory term for mixed race people that begins with “mule”.
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