“No founding father wrote more eloquently on behalf of liberty and human rights than Thomas Jefferson, and none has a more troubling record when it comes to the “peculiar institution” of slavery. …”
BY LAURA MILLER, senior writer for Salon
“No founding father wrote more eloquently on behalf of liberty and human rights than Thomas Jefferson, and none has a more troubling record when it comes to the “peculiar institution” of slavery. …”
BY LAURA MILLER, senior writer for Salon
‘Jefferson allowed two of his “natural” Hemings children to “escape” rather than freeing them; the other two were freed...