Thomas Jefferson: The Hypocrite

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Sep 8, 202000:33:31Society & Culture

He promised his dying wife he would never remarry, then turned around and forced 14-year-old Sally Hemings—whose family he enslaved—to be his concubine. Slavery, a murder conspiracy, his own personal Burn Book… Thomas Je...

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