This article was helpful in that it clearly draws the line from slavery to where we are today. I'm currently reading _Stamped from the Beginning_ ad just got finished with the section about Tom Jefferson. It's hard to believe that such a smart man carried such a heavy load of cognitive dissonance.
BTW, Mr. Hare, you mentioned Heather Cox Richardson. I think it was you that turned me on to her writing. She's quite prolific, and quite the writer. Thank you for that.
Thanks for commenting Rob. Yeah Thomas Jefferson was complex, that is for sure. I think it's impossible for anybody today to place themselves back when the colonies were contemplating their freedom and when both the sins and the concurrent wealth of slavery were being contemplated. Kinda weighty subjects, no?
Weighty topics, indeed. But you're right, it would be near impossible to put ourselves in into that time. We're tainted with the knowledge of history, but it's important to have that knowledge. To know where you are, you have to know how you got here.
Great column Wayne. As you say, if we muddy the waters of why there was a civil war, we get lost in other conversations and arguments, and we can more easily ignore and minimize the reason for that war - slavery.
This article was helpful in that it clearly draws the line from slavery to where we are today. I'm currently reading _Stamped from the Beginning_ ad just got finished with the section about Tom Jefferson. It's hard to believe that such a smart man carried such a heavy load of cognitive dissonance.
BTW, Mr. Hare, you mentioned Heather Cox Richardson. I think it was you that turned me on to her writing. She's quite prolific, and quite the writer. Thank you for that.
Thanks for commenting Rob. Yeah Thomas Jefferson was complex, that is for sure. I think it's impossible for anybody today to place themselves back when the colonies were contemplating their freedom and when both the sins and the concurrent wealth of slavery were being contemplated. Kinda weighty subjects, no?
Weighty topics, indeed. But you're right, it would be near impossible to put ourselves in into that time. We're tainted with the knowledge of history, but it's important to have that knowledge. To know where you are, you have to know how you got here.
Great column Wayne. As you say, if we muddy the waters of why there was a civil war, we get lost in other conversations and arguments, and we can more easily ignore and minimize the reason for that war - slavery.
Thanks Thor. Thanks for posting a comment and maybe stimulating a conversation.