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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Thomas Jefferson sold his kids to slavery and we still put him on our currency. vance is the fucking same kind of scum.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    Presentism at work. Jefferson died around 200 years ago

    Edit: I stand corrected.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    i can't imagine any point in history where it would be acceptable to sell your own children into slavery. i think even in ancient greece, you wouldn't sell your own child as a slave.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    People did this all of the time, not sure about the Greeks specifically (but I would assume they did also).

    If you were dead broke, you married off one of your kids... if you couldn't do that, you sold them.

    People still do this TODAY.

    Imagine if you couldn't feed your own children. Wouldn't selling them be preferable to watching them waste away until their inevitable demise?

    (not that Jefferson did it because he was starving, he just needed some walkin' around money)

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