The Founding Contradiction
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How Did Jefferson Handle Enslaved People?
When jefferson went to paris he took a man named james hemmings, who was the tenager, eighteen, nineteen years old at the time. So there was some tension here, because france, of course, at the time, was resounding with the cries of liberty and equality. And so i think he handles it by treating james as if he were a regular servant, and instead of an enslaved person....
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