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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a descendant of Thomas Jefferson being honest about family history:
“the great thing about Monticello is that it cannot be censored from history in the way that Trump and his right-wing minions are trying to remove the fact of slavery from our history. Thomas Jefferson’s house is there. The parts of the house built by John Hemings are shown on the tour. There is no argument at Monticello about the fact that all the boards in the house were milled by slaves, all the nails were forged by slaves, all the bricks were made by slaves, all Jefferson’s food was grown by slaves and cooked by slaves. All this is history that the right wingers in the Republican Party don’t want to be told.
Jefferson’s life would not have been possible without his slaves. The fact of his ownership of slaves gave him the time and opportunity to write our founding document which stated that all men are created equal without that being a fact on the ground in Virginia or in any of the colonies of the nascent United States of America.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/my-part-of-history-on-our-250th-birthday