Slavery is Barely Past

July 6, 2020
Kyle Callahan

From I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.

That is how close we are not only to Jefferson but also to slavery. When we visited [my great-grandmother] as children, there was only one dead man between my brother and me and Thomas Jefferson.

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