Wow right out of a revisonist History book...
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So? Jefferson talked a lot of crap about equality but he sure as shit didn't set any of his slaves free..
rather he fucked his girls and made more little Buckwheats to serve his aristocratic ass.
While he may have introduced a bill to end the practice he certainly didn't set an example by freeing his own slaves.
By the time old Tom served as president he had backed out of his anti slavery notions
in order to not alienate the south...
Jefferson developed plans for
Indian Removal to lands West of the Mississippi, including forced removal such as that carried out by later presidents in the
Trail of Tears. Before and during his presidency, Jefferson discussed the need for respect, brotherhood, and trade with the Native Americans, and he initially believed that causing them to adopt European-style agriculture and modes of living would allow them to quickly "progress" from "savagery" to
"civilization".
Yet beginning in 1803, Jefferson's private letters show increasing support for a policy of removal.
In cases where Native tribes resisted assimilation, Jefferson believed that to avoid war and probable extermination they should be forcefully relocated and sent west. He told his
Secretary of War, General
Henry Dearborn (who was the primary government official responsible for Indian affairs): "if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.
Jefferson's first promotions of Indian Removal were between 1776 and 1779, when he recommended forcing the
Cherokee and
Shawnee tribes to be driven out of their ancestral homelands to lands west of the
Mississippi River. Indian removal, said Jefferson, was the only way to ensure the survival of Native American peoples. His first such act as president, was to make a deal with the state of
Georgia that if Georgia were to release its legal claims to discovery in lands to the west, then the U.S. military would help forcefully expel the Cherokee people from Georgia. At the time, the Cherokee had a
treaty with the United States government which guaranteed them the right to their lands, which was violated in Jefferson's deal with Georgia.
You want little Buckwheats? Otay:
I guess you don't know about Sally Hemmings.
Based on documentary, scientific, statistical, and oral history evidence, the
Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) Research Committee Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (January 2000) remains the most comprehensive analysis of this historical topic. Ten years later, TJF and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
n September 1802, political journalist
James T. Callender, a disaffected former ally of Jefferson, wrote in a Richmond newspaper that Jefferson had for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves." "Her name is Sally," Callender continued, adding that Jefferson had "several children" by her.
Although there had been rumors of a sexual relationship between Jefferson and an enslaved woman before 1802, Callender's article spread the story widely. It was taken up by Jefferson's Federalist opponents and was published in many newspapers during the remainder of Jefferson's presidency.
DNA test results were released in November 1998, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation formed a research committee consisting of nine members of the foundation staff, including four with Ph.D.s. In January 2000, the committee reported that the weight of all known evidence--from the DNA study, original documents, written and oral historical accounts, and statistical data--indicated a high probability that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was likely the father of all six of Sally Hemings's children listed in Monticello records--Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798); an unnamed daughter (born 1799; died in infancy); Harriet (born 1801); Madison (born 1805); and Eston (born 1808).
Don't accuse me of being a revisionist, it's you and the rest of most of Amerika who have swallowed the
"Americana" narrative. Revisionism is the fairytale that the founding fathers were all ethical
good hearted men.
Jefferson acquired most of the over six hundred slaves he owned during his life through the natural increase of enslaved families. He acquired approximately 175 slaves through inheritance: about 40 from the estate of his father,
Peter Jefferson, in 1764, and 135 from his father-in-law,
John Wayles, in 1774. Jefferson purchased fewer than twenty slaves in his lifetime, in some cases to unite spouses and in others to satisfy labor needs at Monticello.
Indeed he owned Monticello.
Do you own your home? If so it doesn't matter how many people live on your estate,
you are the head of said estate and therefore responsible for what goes on in it.
Sir Banastre Tarleton was a Brit soldier and politician.
Banastre Tarleton was known for his British military service in the American War of Independence, which started when Tarleton was twenty-one. As a military commander he was the subject of a rebel American campaign which claimed that Tarleton's
British Legion had massacred surrendering
Continental Army troops at the
Battle of Waxhaws, South Carolina, in 1780. In the 19th century those killings became known in American history as the "Waxhaws Massacre".
Dubbed "The Butcher" or "Bloody Ban" by colonials, Tarleton was dashing and ruthless.
In 1781, Tarleton drew an important mission. After Lord Cornwallis and his army invaded Virginia and the turncoat Benedict Arnold led raids around the state, Bloody Ban was ordered to capture or kill the governor of Virginia — Thomas Jefferson.
Jack Jouett learned of the plan and set off to warn Jefferson. Thanks to Jouett, Jefferson and his family managed to escape capture or death. However, Tarleton seized seven members of the Virginia legislature.
Blacks played a part in the War of Independence, on both sides.
While most American slaves chose to fight against the Brits, the Brits forced captured slaves
into conscription, especially toward the end of the Revolution when the Brits were running low on men.
But FREE THEM? LOL.
The slave trade in Great Britain continued, unabated. ... Britons
owned slave-worked mines and plantations and invested in countries which were dependent on slave labour until the 1880s when
slavery was finally abolished in the Americas. In fact, the role of
slavery in
Britain's wealth
did not diminish.
"What next Haze..you gonna tell us Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus was just Saul pulling a fast one..."
Must I? 'cause I sure can.
Whatever the Jewish Lawyer, Saul of Tarsus' motives for ceasing to persecute Christians were
he sure proceeded to a. Claim to be an original apostle though he never met the man Jesus
and b. As Paul he proceeded to spew a Gospel totally contrary to what Jesus preached, one that to this day
causes much confusion and is rejected by many "Christian" denominations.
Oh yeah,cynic
cyn·ic
ˈsinik/
noun
noun:
cynic; plural noun:
cynics; noun:
Cynic; plural noun:
Cynics
- 1.
a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons.
a member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers founded by Antisthenes, marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure. The movement flourished in the 3rd century BC and revived in the 1st century AD.
re·al·ist
ˈrēəlist/
noun
noun:
realist; plural noun:
realists
1.
a person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly.
"I am a realist, with no time for your world of make believe"
If you wanna believe in fairy tales that is your prerogative but I prefer to dig for truth
even if it means spelunking the wabbit hole.
As far as being a lying little weasel...I'm more of a big bear, lying is against my religion,
I wear my colors on my sleeve, and my barricade goes all the way around my house
but this isn't the USA I grew up in...or maybe it is..But I refuse to fight except for myself and family
and I've been in the trenches for years.
