Slave Owner
It’s a widely known fact that American founding father Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and generally accepted that he fathered six children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings....
‘Fixed in Nature’
In justifying his commercial holdings, Jefferson expressed views about whites and Blacks having differences that were “fixed in nature.” One of the clearest statements of...
‘In Reason Much Inferior’
But in the tract’s most infamous passages, he puts on his amateur anthropologist hat to make some startling observations. Citing skin color as the most obvious distinguishing...
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The Food That Built America
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Why did the Taliban say this week that Afghan women should stay home? Test your knowledge.
Suits: The New Face of Latin American Crime
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