Hi friends, Happy Thursday! It feels like it’s been awhile since I wrote all of you lovely people. It’s fall! The end of Daylight Savings Time took away both my children’s ability to sleep and a crucial hour of sunlight in the afternoon. It just feels needlessly cruel.
For someone to better understand the complexity of Jefferson, reading his views on slavery and indigenous people is worth exploring. He definitely is a paradox - how can someone write "all men are created equal" and yet own slaves. I think he was blind to his own bigotry. When your kids are older, "Jefferson's Sons" is an excellent fictional narrative.
Little detail, Jefferson was the 3rd president.
For someone to better understand the complexity of Jefferson, reading his views on slavery and indigenous people is worth exploring. He definitely is a paradox - how can someone write "all men are created equal" and yet own slaves. I think he was blind to his own bigotry. When your kids are older, "Jefferson's Sons" is an excellent fictional narrative.