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Were the people Jefferson emancipated all his own children, or were there others as well?

One big revision I would make is that I’m now 99% sure he wrote the poem. I had a computational linguist run a bunch of tests on the poem and a lot of other early 19th century New York poetry and they almost all pointed to Moore

Well, for any folks who now need a pick-me-up, here’s Santa at the No Kings Rally in L.A. on Saturday. ☺️

Two other men were, but they were manumitted in 1811 and 1813 with Clement signing the documents on his father's behalf. His father died in 1816 and in the 1820 Census Clement had no slaves in his household. (I spent way too much time on this a few years ago) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Oh my. Sigh. The Night Before Christmas will never be the same. Damn that inconvenient reality...!

Oof. I was so hoping not.

Exactly. It's the double speak out their mouths that have some believing Abraham Lincoln was a true abolitionist when he also thought Blacks were not equal to whites.

Ugh.

Thank you for the post script. Hypocrisy is the through line of politics.

Thanks for posting this.

Which is to say: "Racism is abhorrent, therefore the entire universe was created under 10k years ago" versus "Geology indicates immense time, therefore humanity has distinct and hierarchical races" (To be clear, most white Biblical literalists were *also* racists! They did a "sons of Ham" thing.)

Moore and his family were slaveholders in New York, where slavery was not abolished until 1827. Moore is documented as having received enslaved people from his maternal grandmother,

Same.