Consider: Since TJ's time, we have gained more than his "promise" could
have predicted. Citizenship with voting rights extends far past TJ's image
of the educated landed gentry voting for the populace ... Machination has
allowed education to replace youthful labor for the masses .... It cost the
nation dearly to repair the slavery flaw in the Constitution ....

                                                 Anne


> > But I fail to see why you, and in general, the academic community,
>sees more in slavery other than a historical fact. Do you believe it lessens
>today the moral stature of Jefferson- that somehow the promise his words have
>brought to us and to the world is no longer valid?
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