‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/thomas-jefferson-great-grandson-family-legacy

21st CENTURY SHORT VERSION –

THE WORDS OF ALL FOUNDING FATHERS WAS A…

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

FROM ENGLAND

NOT

A WORDED DECLARATION OF WAR

WITH ENGLAND

WORDS WERE CAREFULLY CHOSEN TO AVOID WAR

JUST AS THE EXPLOITATION OF SLAVERY WAS REGARDED AS AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT IN ITS OWN…

SACROSANCT WITHOUT AND BEYOND ABSOLUTE QUESTION

HENCE THE WORDS USED TO ADMINISTER PEACEFUL CHANGE…

…“that all men are created equal” with the right to pursue “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”…

YOU WILL NOTICE WITHOUT DOUBT…

THE WORD…

“MEN”

NEITHER WOMEN HAD ANY STATUS AS BEING EQUAL NOR MENTIONED IN THE DECLARATION…

YOU COULD EITHER CHANGE EVERYTHING WITH BLOODY GUNS AND WARS TO DEATH…

OR

CHANGE IT WITH WORDS…

WHICH WOULD YOU HAVE PREFERRED ???

CAME DOWN TO …

FREE WILL AND CHOICE

EVERYONE WANTS PEACE, BUT 99 PERCENT OF THE TIME IT COMES ABOUT BY WAY OF WAR

WHOMEVER WINS…

WRITES THEIR VERSION OF HISTORY WITH THEIR STORIES OF VICTORY OVER ENEMIES WHO WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THEIR WAY OF LIFE