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"If you look at someone like Jefferson (again, I know) he wrote works of philosophy and rhetoric, highly talented architect, skilled violinist, conducted experiments in agronomy and meteorology in his own time, fluent in six languages. Apparently he even invented the swivel chair."
"This was the hope of the bourgeois revolutionaries (Smith, Rousseau, Jefferson, etc) but the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of industrial capitalism blocked it."
"he was more Jefferson's rival than Hamilton."
"Jefferson was a social liberal who opposed slavery-in-the-abstract and tried several times to stop its expansion into western territories before giving up when those initiatives failed."
"Thomas Jefferson had a pet mockingbird named Dick that he considered to be one of his closest friends. Sources report he was absolutely besotted with Dick and used to play music with him."
"Premise: The true story of the Declaration of Independence; where Thomas Jefferson's slave actually secretly wrote the whole thing! Robert Hemings was a slave that attended Jefferson while he was working on the Declaration, but Hemings actually wrote it and Jefferson stole the idea because he was a "
"Intro history class. About half the students were in favor of removing all statues of Jefferson and Washington for being slaveowners."
"Thomas Jefferson had a pet mockingbird named Dick that he considered to be one of his closest friends. Sources report he was absolutely besotted with Dick and used to play music with him."