Author Thomas Ricks and professor Annette Gordon-Reed join Morning Joe to discuss the life and legacy of America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. Aired on 11/12/2020.
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‘A Deeply Flawed Man’: The Life And Legacy Of Thomas Jefferson | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Thanks goodness for Annette Gordon-Reed and her wise unraveling of Thomas Ricks and Joe’s faulty takes on the complex and vitally important and brilliant Thomas Jefferson. It’s so easy to blame Jefferson for not being what we want him to be and overlook who he was historically. Jefferson tried on five different occasions to end the slave trade and failed 5 times. He then decided that establishing and protecting the young nation was his work and that later generations, when the nation was stronger and more secure internationally, would have to take up that work of ending slavery. He saw that The Civil War would have to happen to end slavery and was convinced that if that happened too early the nation would tear itself apart. He mentored James Madison and to a lessor extent James Madison. Yes, taking his wife’s half-sister and slave Sally Hemmings as a long term mistress was particularly repugnant. And his views on race and gender, while not unusual for his time, are now rightly seen as racist and chauvinist. Yes, he didn’t handle his own financial affairs well although he did manage the nation’s finances very well. Like Benjamin Franklin he was better loved and appreciated in France than in America. I ordered the Rick’s book, but after hearing his superficial take on Jefferson today, I’m sorry I did. I prefer to read Gordon Wood or Gordon-Reed for better historical understanding.
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Thomas Jefferson like 11 other presidents were slave owners! They hold no special place in the hearts of black Americans, aka ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery).
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Pioneers maybe be far from perfect, but if they take us into the right direction, we should be grateful, and cut them some slack.
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Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the United States 1801-09 was no doubt one of the founding fathers of the American revolution and the author of the declaration of American independence. Along with Adams, Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Madison was a abiding pillar to that cause. But we all have to know and accept the fact that he like us was a human and no human can ever be perfect however great and infallible he or she may seem. That we came to know that he not only owned hundreds of slaves but also had illegitimate children through one of them speaks for itself. So we have to study and learn from these great political and historical figures and not just worship them blindly.
I’m not an American but an Indian and have for as long as I can remember have been fascinated by the history of this truly great nation and by its constitution as to how did the forefathers write such an incredible document which till this day stands relevant and testimony to our times and will continue to do so for a thousand years to come.
I also feel that the reason why many of these founding giants were flawed in some way or the other many including myself still find Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest of them all fo so many reasons, truly a colossus of a man, and the United States by far truly the greatest nation on earth.
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Jefferson, like everyone at that time, was trapped in an economic and cultural structure imposed on them by Britain long, long before. Cultures do trap human beings; going against the culture you are born into sometimes, maybe often, gets you killed. He and others had to walk a fine line to try to be in between. The same goes for residents of the south; they were trapped as well, especially economically. It’s the way it was. The error of the War Between the States was that everyone viewed the problem of slavery as all or nothing rather than having the foresight and patience to gradually phase it out so as not to tear the nation apart. I fault Lincoln and others for that. All men are flawed to one extent or another (women less so).
He was terrible with money as he lived lavishly beyond his means.
Died in debt.
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Thomas Jefferson was a Flawed Man as President, Donald Trump is a Deplorable LIAR, and a Corrupt Con of a President.
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