Comments on: David Barton’s whitewash of Thomas Jefferson as a slave owner

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:23:53 +0000

Barton cannot even be classed as an amateur historian due to his necessary confirmation bias. Someday….

By: Bert Lund

Bert Lund — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:58:54 +0000

Why doesn’t Throckmorton debate Mr. Barton face to face? Some how I know that will never happen. There is a weighiness regarding the truth of this subject that only the “principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places” full understand the the import thereof.

Shame on all those who have even the slightest trace of “self promotion” or “contentiouis jealousy” when weighing in upon Jefferson.

By: James M. Martin

James M. Martin — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:58:53 +0000

You touch on a sublime irony. If he whitewashes Jefferson’s role as a slaver, the pseudo-historian Barton does the Bible a disservice. Both old a new testaments acknowledge the righteousness of owning slaves; indeed, much of the O.T. is chock full of advice on how to treat this conquered foe or that once you have them in chains. The Bartons of this world, hell-bent on painting the separation of church and state as “a myth,” do all they can to Christianize the statesman, but he and Adams, Madison and Lincoln (and anyone’s guess how many others) often dissed Christianity at least in the practice of it, some reserving choice epithets for pastors and preachers in particular. (Lincoln’s atheism may have been inspired by all the failed table-turnings in the White House, since both he and Mary were so saddened with the death of Tad that they resorted to spiritism. Today, we have The Great Randi.) Make no mistake about it: Jefferson was anti-clerical, anti-organized religion, and basically agnostic if not privately atheist.

By: James Fergson

James Fergson — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:58:53 +0000

Also of note is that Jefferson did free 5 slaves in his will. I have noted repeatedly in my comments to the review I wrote in amazon, that it wasn’t the Virginia law, but his own insurmountable debts that forced him to retain his slaves. He used his slaves as collateral, which McLaughlin notes in his book, Jefferson and Monticello, and these slaves were sold as part of the estate sale upon his death to cover his debts.

By: Bert Lund

Bert Lund — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:27:17 +0000

Shame on all those who have even the slightest trace of “self promotion” or “contentiouis jealousy” when weighing in upon Jefferson.