Reply #10: Right, you have to consider the temper of the times... [View All]

[hollywood926]

Jefferson had slaves, but you can't discount all the great things he did because of that. It was a different mentality. They didn't think of slaves as "men." That sounds awful to us, but when that's all you know and have ever known, you don't think it's abnormal.

Same with the "Indians." Most were peace-loving, but some actually were the savages they were thought to be (the Iroquois, as I recall, were quite violent and nasty).

The temper of the times...