dersen.bsky.social
Software developer, drummer, spouse.
The pfp is of the EVE Online character whose name I'm using as a pseudonym. Cishet, white, male, 56, teaching myself how to be a better person, and a better ally, every day.
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Lafayette was not just asking this question because he could see slaves in front of him but also because he was part of a global intellectual and political movement in opposition to slavery. Washington was not unaware of this, he was simply on the opposing side of that particular struggle
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part of the reason people don't want the history of this period taught or understood is to make this illegible to people. it's easy to swallow thought ending cliches about which venerated figure was a "man of their times" if you remain studiously unaware of what their times actually were
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And purely wasteful. Just throwing away millions and millions of dollars out of spite.
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one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!