The Founding Contradiction
Hidden Brain
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How Did Jefferson Navigate the Slavery Crisis?
In those days, it was much more than father knows best what he said would go. He had basically the freedom to impose a kind of order on this place ateverybody went along with. It's also important to remember that jefferson had two surviving daughters with his wifeyou know, who died in seventeen eighty two. So i think he handled it by being the boss, and it was te kind of thing that people would not question....
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