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Topic	It is sad how Epic Rap Battles of History became SJW
DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC 04/18/18 9:20:18 AM #24:	hollow_shrine posted... DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted... It -- it's almost like TC doesn't know anything about how Thomas Jefferson despised slavery even while still being dependent on it. Crazy, right? He was a brilliant man every way but financially. Unlike George Washington (who freed his slaves in his will, and supported some as pensioners until they died), TJ wasn't wealthy enough to do anything except keep owning them. He even had to make deals with some of his creditors to free the few he did after his death, He could literally decide that his continued wealth and status was less important than the lives and freedom of the people he owned and make a principled decision to stop owning people. He absolutely has a choice here. You think the abolition of slavery was, at any time, convenient for slave owners? Come on. And let's not touch that Sally Hemmings situation. Did you know the son he fathered with her lived as a house slave on his estate as part of the kitchen staff? He didn't feel strongly enough about it to free his own children. A lot of people back then, due to societal structure and formal religion, honestly believed that blacks were an lower class of human, meant to be slaves (as Jefferson Davis would say in the 1860's, "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.") Jefferson could have freed his slaves during his life, yes, but it would have meant his financial ruin, and there's no way he would have done it. And even then, he was in such bad straits monetarily that it was pretty much chance that the six he freed were freed after his death. The entire South was completely bound up in the slave/plantation economy, and the people in power would no more have freed the slaves and had them declared citizens than they could have flown to the moon. Jefferson was opposed to slavery, believed it was morally wrong, but in the end, he didn't have the courage of his convictions, and it was simply easier to keep on as he always had. D-Lo_BrownTown posted... Epic Rap Battles of History is still a thing? Wow. They're on an extended hiatus ATM. Peter's wife is pregnant, due sometime this month. Lloyd is still doing music in the interim, and they said they'll get back together and start working on a new season next month. --- "Shut your filthy whore mouth."- AB "But if I shut my filthy whore mouth, I can't use it to be a filthy whore. Does not compute." - TashaMK <cite>DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted [p:899867725] in It is sad ... [t:76527230]...</cite> <quote><cite>hollow_shrine posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...</cite> <quote>It -- it's almost like TC doesn't know anything about how Thomas Jefferson despised slavery even while still being dependent on it. Crazy, right? He was a brilliant man every way but financially. Unlike George Washington (who freed his slaves in his will, and supported some as pensioners until they died), TJ wasn't wealthy enough to do anything except keep owning them. He even had to make deals with some of his creditors to free the few he did after his death,</quote> He could literally decide that his continued wealth and status was less important than the lives and freedom of the people he owned and make a principled decision to stop owning people. He absolutely has a choice here. You think the abolition of slavery was, at any time, convenient for slave owners? Come on. And let's not touch that Sally Hemmings situation. Did you know the son he fathered with her lived as a house slave on his estate as part of the kitchen staff? He didn't feel strongly enough about it to free his own children.</quote>A lot of people back then, due to societal structure and formal religion, honestly believed that blacks were an lower class of human, meant to be slaves (as Jefferson Davis would say in the 1860's, "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.") Jefferson could have freed his slaves during his life, yes, but it would have meant his financial ruin, and there's no way he would have done it. And even then, he was in such bad straits monetarily that it was pretty much chance that the six he freed were freed after his death. The entire South was completely bound up in the slave/plantation economy, and the people in power would no more have freed the slaves and had them declared citizens than they could have flown to the moon. Jefferson was opposed to slavery, believed it was morally wrong, but in the end, he didn't have the courage of his convictions, and it was simply easier to keep on as he always had. <cite>D-Lo_BrownTown posted...</cite> <quote>Epic Rap Battles of History is still a thing? Wow.</quote>They're on an extended hiatus ATM. Peter's wife is pregnant, due sometime this month. Lloyd is still doing music in the interim, and they said they'll get back together and start working on a new season next month. --- "Shut your filthy whore mouth."- AB "But if I shut my filthy whore mouth, I can't use it to be a filthy whore. Does not compute." - TashaMK</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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