{"id":78538,"date":"2022-10-13T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=78538"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:37:04","slug":"jefferson-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/jefferson-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s Stance on Slavery?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What was Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s stance on slavery? How did the institution of slavery oppose Jefferson&#8217;s political interests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While claiming to cherish and respect people of all colors and ethnicities, Thomas Jefferson instituted policies that pointed to the opposite. Like many of his time, Jefferson found himself caught between his intellectual ideals (which opposed slavery and racism) and his economic and political self-interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibram X. Kendi, a historian of race and discriminatory policy in America, deconstructs Jefferson&#8217;s slavery and racism views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-thomas-jefferson-some-men-are-created-equal\"><strong>Thomas Jefferson: Some Men Are Created Equal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kendi, the Declaration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maturity-continuum-7-habits\/\">Independence<\/a> reveals a contradiction in its author\u2019s thinking. In the Declaration, the slave-holding Jefferson asserts that \u201call men are created equal\u201d\u2014resulting in an ambiguity that Kendi says reflects Jefferson\u2019s larger ambivalence about race, as expressed in his often contradictory writings and actions. Kendi gives several examples highlighting Jefferson&#8217;s slavery stance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jefferson blamed the British for preventing Americans from abolishing slavery but also blamed them for inciting slave revolts. In either case, Kendi points out, the critical issue isn\u2019t slavery or racism\u2014it\u2019s unwanted British influence.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Jefferson opposed letting former slaves be part of free White society, arguing that it would lead to violence because Black people rightly had grievances against their White enslavers (an arguably antiracist and certainly empathetic statement) <em>and <\/em>because Black people are morally inferior (an openly racist statement).&nbsp;<\/li><li>Jefferson insisted that only White people were beautiful and denigrated Black people\u2019s appearance, but he also fathered numerous children with an enslaved mistress. Kendi points out that this contradiction was common under slavery, and in fact led to accusations that Black women were aggressively promiscuous\u2014a myth that persists to this day.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>What America\u2019s Founders Thought About Slavery<\/strong><br><br>Like Jefferson, most of America\u2019s founders enslaved people. But while Kendi suggests that Jefferson\u2019s attitudes reflect a general ambivalence about slavery among the founders as a whole, that doesn\u2019t appear to be the case. In fact, other historians suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/articles\/founding-fathers-views-slavery\">many of the founders eventually opposed slavery and wished to see it abolished<\/a>. For example, George Washington\u2014whom Kendi critiques for his hesitation to publicly oppose slavery during the Revolutionary War\u2014eventually came to regret enslaving others, and when he died, he freed the people he\u2019d enslaved.<br><br>Likewise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/03\/06\/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248\">many of the colonies had started moving toward abolition<\/a> by the Revolutionary period. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/articles\/founding-fathers-views-slavery\">many Northern states did indeed abolish slavery during or immediately after the war<\/a>\u2014though their economies remained tied to slave-based Southern agriculture. This conflict of interests led to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2019\/09\/17\/constitutions-biggest-flaw-protecting-slavery\/\">a number of protections for slavery in the Constitution<\/a>\u2014most notoriously, the definition of a Black slave as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of Congressional representation.&nbsp;<br><br>In short, Revolutionary-era attitudes about slavery are perhaps more nuanced than Kendi lets on. And yet, in framing the Constitution, the founders demonstrated Kendi\u2019s fundamental claim on a grand scale: By prioritizing the new union and its economic success over their moral objections to slavery, the founders accepted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/protest-vs-demonstration\/\">racist policy<\/a> as a way to achieve what they saw as the interests of the new nation.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s stance on slavery? 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