Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History #10
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Thomas
The one thing we cannot do is judge him by the ethical standards of today or use the 20-20 vision of being able to see into the past and decide if something was a mistake by seeing it's outcome. They did not have that ability. They could only look forward and use the facts of the time and not the facts of the future. Nobody of today could have done any better if transported back in time with no knowledge of modern times. We are in many ways much worse off politically today then we were back then. I would trade the political climate of today for the political climate of that time in an instant. Democrats of today have destroyed so much of the liberty we were intended to have that we scarcely resemble a free country anymore.
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The one thing we cannot do is judge him by the ethical standards of today or use the 20-20 vision of being able to see into the past and decide if something was a mistake by seeing it's outcome. They did not have that ability. They could only look forward and use the facts of the time and not the facts of the future. Nobody of today could have done any better if transported back in time with no knowledge of modern times. We are in many ways much worse off politically today then we were back then. I would trade the political climate of today for the political climate of that time in an instant. Democrats of today have destroyed so much of the liberty we were intended to have that we scarcely resemble a free country anymore.
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Cultural
Who made up the slave owners and who made up the slaves. Well that depends, because indentured servants were classified under slave labor. In 1840, for example, nearly 500, 000 poor white European immigrants were indentured and sent to the Caribbean. Indentured servitude often required harsh or unsafe conditions. Indentured servants worked alongside slaves on plantations. According to the Georgia slave laws from 1755-1860, slave status applied to Blacks, Indians, Mulatoes and Mestizos (Spanish/Native American lineage. The slave owners were White, Black, Mulatoe, Brazilian and from the five Native American tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole.
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Who made up the slave owners and who made up the slaves. Well that depends, because indentured servants were classified under slave labor. In 1840, for example, nearly 500, 000 poor white European immigrants were indentured and sent to the Caribbean. Indentured servitude often required harsh or unsafe conditions. Indentured servants worked alongside slaves on plantations. According to the Georgia slave laws from 1755-1860, slave status applied to Blacks, Indians, Mulatoes and Mestizos (Spanish/Native American lineage. The slave owners were White, Black, Mulatoe, Brazilian and from the five Native American tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole.
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tsramb23
This idiot says Thomas Jefferson is a racist! Nothing could be further from the truth! Thomas Jefferson said about slavery -We have the wolf by the ears and we can neither capture it nor let it go. - What Jefferson meant was that they couldnt end slavery and unite the colonies against the British at the same time. I learned this is my high school literature class, so why doesn't this idiot know this? He clearly has no knowledge about the politics of the time and what the founding fathers had to overcome to create a new country. I really hope people read some books and dont get deceived by this ignorant buffoon.
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This idiot says Thomas Jefferson is a racist! Nothing could be further from the truth! Thomas Jefferson said about slavery -We have the wolf by the ears and we can neither capture it nor let it go. - What Jefferson meant was that they couldnt end slavery and unite the colonies against the British at the same time. I learned this is my high school literature class, so why doesn't this idiot know this? He clearly has no knowledge about the politics of the time and what the founding fathers had to overcome to create a new country. I really hope people read some books and dont get deceived by this ignorant buffoon.
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Indianajones
-3: 52 at least you are skewing Jefferson-s history with slavery and I don-t appreciate it, seeing in how many of these Gen. Zer-s are learning from people like you because they are lazy you gotta come correct. And just
Saying Jefferson was a piece of trash slave owner and therefore the phrase -all men are created equal- just simply confuses you is not good enough, there is long complicated story behind it, and sweeping it all under the rug is not a good practice
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-3: 52 at least you are skewing Jefferson-s history with slavery and I don-t appreciate it, seeing in how many of these Gen. Zer-s are learning from people like you because they are lazy you gotta come correct. And just
Saying Jefferson was a piece of trash slave owner and therefore the phrase -all men are created equal- just simply confuses you is not good enough, there is long complicated story behind it, and sweeping it all under the rug is not a good practice
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Sasha
Thomas Jefferson was not pro-slavery he owned slaves because it was in his interests which makes him a hypocrite and arguably selfish but NOT intellectually or ideologically pro-slavery.
Which means his ideas were mostly intellectually consistent.
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Thomas Jefferson was not pro-slavery he owned slaves because it was in his interests which makes him a hypocrite and arguably selfish but NOT intellectually or ideologically pro-slavery.
Which means his ideas were mostly intellectually consistent.
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Matthew
John Green: Who the John C. Calhoun is George Tucker?
Me: Who the George Tucker is John C. Calhoun?
Ooooohhhhhhh, former Vice President. No wonder I don't know him.
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John Green: Who the John C. Calhoun is George Tucker?
Me: Who the George Tucker is John C. Calhoun?
Ooooohhhhhhh, former Vice President. No wonder I don't know him.
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David
Jefferson was the best president you ever had. Hammering this idiotic slavery narrative only serves to highlight your disgusting leftist bias
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Jefferson was the best president you ever had. Hammering this idiotic slavery narrative only serves to highlight your disgusting leftist bias
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Teresa
I am so glad Crash Course exists. I am learning (or refreshing what I learned in the past) a lot of knowledge about SO many things.
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I am so glad Crash Course exists. I am learning (or refreshing what I learned in the past) a lot of knowledge about SO many things.
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