Dyedinthewoolliberal
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Tue Mar-22-05 01:49 PM
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4. It's very easy to find flaws |
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looking in the rearview mirror. To expect anyone to be enlightened enough to speak out/condemn/take action against slavery, in this example, is to hold them to a false standard. We cannot judge the actions/morality of the past by current standards. We can only say that we now know better. I beleive if Jefferson were alive today he would agree slavery to be wrong and have nothing to do with it. You would really have to scour history to find a man of wealth, privlege and southern birth to be a leader in the abolition movement.....
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