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A Founding Contradiction

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Jefferson's Incentives Versus Punishment

There is no record of jefferson ever beating any body, but overseers at monticello and his other plantations did use the whip. But jefferson developed the idea that using incentives would be a better way to get people to do things than to whip them. So this notion of incentives versus punishment or whipping, was something that became a part of his way of making himself a better slaveholder.

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