Within the context of the events taking place during his lifetime, Thomas Jefferson comes off as the prudent voice of reason and statesmanship. Given the situation as it was, Monticello could have been a worse place. Certainly the slaves “rescued” by Fanny Wright did not benefit from her radical idealism. Even the free blacks who emigrated to black-run Haiti found themselves denied political rights and facing hunger and forced labor on plantations.
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