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Topic	Is it unfair to judge historical figures by today's moral standards?
Esrac 12/19/18 7:48:20 PM #22:	joe_stalin518 posted... Orlando_Jordan posted... Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. But that was the norm for his time. It's a bad thing, yes, but does that make the man himself pure evil? Actually he was giving those slaves by his father in law and supposedly never bought a single one, and he didn't let them just go because then they would have been caught , he also had Elizabeth hemming buried next to him cause he saw her as family. He also started the great U.S. navy we have today I think you're confusing Jefferson with John Adam's regarding the part about the Navy. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac/wishlist/ <cite>Esrac posted [p:914413919] in Is it unfa... [t:77317840]...</cite> <quote><cite>joe_stalin518 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Orlando_Jordan posted...</cite> <quote>Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. But that was the norm for his time. It's a bad thing, yes, but does that make the man himself pure evil?</quote> Actually he was giving those slaves by his father in law and supposedly never bought a single one, and he didn't let them just go because then they would have been caught , he also had Elizabeth hemming buried next to him cause he saw her as family. He also started the great U.S. navy we have today</quote> I think you're confusing Jefferson with John Adam's regarding the part about the Navy. --- http://steamcommunity.com/id/Esrac/wishlist/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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