Thanks wikipedia! (But seriously though wtf is up with this article)

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There is actually a kernel of truth in that, but it just shows how monstrous Jefferson was: he was opposed to the continued importation of slaves because he bred them. "I consider the labor of a breeding woman as no object, and that a child raised every two years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring man."