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The Life of a Bell Ringer

The life of the university's founder, thomas jefferson. A man that we've come to know as a problematic figure in the history of race in america. Although one of the writers of the declaration of independence, he himself kept slaves and even had a child by one of those slaves. If we don't address this, we are not going to survive as anation. So i wanted to especially in the poem bell ringer, bring out this, this man who people wanted to think of as invisible, and say, here we are. We are all keeping time ar in some way or another.

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