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It’s like when people excuse Jefferson owning a shit ton of slaves as “part of the time” meanwhile his contemporaries John and Samuel Adams were staunchly anti slavery and thought the whole thing was wrong and disgusting.
So if even Jefferson’s own contemporaries could recognize that slavery was evil, he had no excuse
He did rewrite the bible, right?
Kinda seems like he thought he knew better than everyone else.