Word: hemingses
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Championing liberty is all well and good--until you need someone to bottle the cider. As he writes to his son-in-law about the death of Jupiter, his slave and personal attendant for three decades, Jefferson seems as sorry for the loss of the labor as the loss of...
Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson for whom the issue of race loomed largest. In the roles of slaveholder, public official and family man, the relationship between blacks and whites was something he thought about, wrote about and grappled with from his cradle to his grave. Jefferson...
Especially interesting is Kennedy’s discussion of the influence different perceptions of interracial relationships have had on political history. Thomas Jefferson’s enemies called the president’s character into question with rumors that Jefferson sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings, while Abraham...
Times and priorities change. It's disconcerting to the environmentalist to hear the author of This Land Is Your Land sounding like a booster from Houston with a pump jack for a metronome. But the Depression was then. This is now. Political correctness is addicted to committing the sin of...
To enjoy really filthy campaigning, it is necessary to return to the Founding Fathers. In 1800, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton "an intriguant, the greatest intriguant in the world - a man devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the...