Article 6VC6T 5 Inconvenient, Ugly Truths About America's 'Founding Fathers' And Slavery

5 Inconvenient, Ugly Truths About America's 'Founding Fathers' And Slavery

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Candace McDuffie
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In the new History Channel documentary series Thomas Jefferson," America's third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson wrote in his memoir, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson," that in 1769 he and his cousin proposed a bill that would...

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