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<p>[QUOTE="NormW, post: 3056262, member: 46682"]Like some of the previous posts, history is subjective. Jefferson owned slaves but was in favor of abolition. Sounds like he was a hypocrite. But the rest of the story..... Virginia had a law that a plantation owner who was in mortgage debt was not allowed to sell or free slaves. So even though Jefferson was an abolitionist , because he was not the greatest businessman and was in debt alot, he was not allowed to free his slaves. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say Julius Caesar, who manged to kill more Romans than any barbarian army could ever manage, was mis understood. But the world was certainly a different place back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NormW, post: 3056262, member: 46682"]Like some of the previous posts, history is subjective. Jefferson owned slaves but was in favor of abolition. Sounds like he was a hypocrite. But the rest of the story..... Virginia had a law that a plantation owner who was in mortgage debt was not allowed to sell or free slaves. So even though Jefferson was an abolitionist , because he was not the greatest businessman and was in debt alot, he was not allowed to free his slaves. This is not to say Julius Caesar, who manged to kill more Romans than any barbarian army could ever manage, was mis understood. But the world was certainly a different place back then.[/QUOTE]
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