Re:A Genius at Suffering
by AnonMessiah on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:57PM
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>"...enslaved more than six-hundred people over the course of his life"
Seems to me that if you do own 600 people over the course of your life you, at least implicitly, condone slavery.
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If you want to write him off that quickly, feel free, but you're short sighting yourself. Finding oneself in a society with slavery, Jefferson purchased slaves from owners that abused them, and then did his best to ensure others knew the cruelty of those individuals, triggering a local society shunning of them and repercussions in their church - which at the time was very powerful. Jefferson's own handling and treatment of his slaves was extremely humane considering the status quo at that time.
> Jefferson's own handling and treatment of his slaves was extremely humane considering the status quo at that time.
Literally a pro-slavery intellectual position defended on HN, thx for the case study.