#history not only of the enslaved people at Monticello but the deliberate suppression of the cruelty necessary to run Jefferson's economic system.
of course not mentioned in the Monticello web site section on the Nailery was flogging enslaved children to improve productivity
of course not mentioned in the Monticello web site section on the Nailery was flogging enslaved children to improve productivity
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Courtney Wilburn
This article has stayed with me 13 years. In a time where ahistorical accounts of how this country's founders navigated the subjugation of Black people are being used to justify all kinds of modern-day horrors, stuff like this is important to elevate.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
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