Okay, but it's kind of hard to take a statement like this seriously from a guy who owned over 100 slaves, though.
Replies
He was accurately describing his situation. He'd like to keep his slaves.
aug 27, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Why? I think he was pretty serious about establishing a state to protect his property in both land and humans. Like he wasn't going to add on "and that's bad." He's fine with it. He wants to keep it that way.
aug 27, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
You know what? That's on me. I'm so used to modern politicians pretending to be salt of the earth that my mind automatically assumed he was doing the same here instead of outright being a haughty asshole, since that was something he could actually get away with uncontroversially in his time. My bad.
aug 28, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
Remember, only white male property owners could vote in most places. He didn't have to give a fuck about a mass audience. He was talking to and for the only people who mattered politically.
aug 28, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
It's the kind of thing that makes you wonder why - when reminded of the context - more people don't reevaluate their godlike hero worship of the people on the ground floor of this country. "Yeah, they established it, but we live in a much different world now" should go a LOT farther than it seems to
aug 28, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Most people have not read the Federalist Papers. But then again, I think many students in red states are taught nothing about slavery either. The founders/framers are regarded as divinely inspired prophets.
aug 28, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
As someone who grew up in a household that was religiously very tangential to that viewpoint, I can't imagine it was much better for so many of my peers.
aug 28, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view