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Essay Archive - Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
Thomas Jefferson was a man of the greatest moral character who has been
excoriated routinely over the last 30 years by historical revisionists and
presentists. His commitment to America and his vast contributions to the
framing of society as it is today are overlooked in favor of base analysis
of his character that, while not flawless, is that of a morally upright
person who has deeply held convictions and lives by them. Jefferson was
born to a prominent family of Virginia tobacco growers. Plantation life is
based largely around the work of s....
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