Comments on: Jefferson and Slavery: A Response to David Barton on the Glenn Beck Show, Part Three

By: Krista Vessell

Krista Vessell — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:25:43 +0000

Exactly, TxHistoryProf! And anyone who DOES point out any faults that the founding fathers had, Barton accuses of engaging in “deconstructionism.” It’s insane, and Barton needs to be stopped. I pray that his book being unraveled for the shoddy, inaccurate piece of propaganda that it is is only the beginning. People are being brainwashed by him, and his “ministry” is turning into a cult. It’s very scary, especially when you talk to his “followers.” They are so brainwashed that they are beyond being able to be reasoned with. These are the kind of people who do wacky, violent things in the name of God. I pray it never gets to that point. But the fact that Barton and his crew are so politically active, I’m afraid the division will just grow deeper and deeper…

By: Krista Vessell

Krista Vessell — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:25:41 +0000

Is anyone familiar with Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko and the account of his will reading:

Thaddeus KOSCIUSZKO, will, dated 5 May 1798, presented 12 May 1819

“I Thaddeus Kosciuszko being of just in my departure from America do

hereby declare and direct that should I make no other Testamentary disposition

of my property in the United States, I hereby authorize my friend Thomas

Jefferson to employ the whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his

own or any others and giving them Liberty in my name, in giving them

in [sic] education in trades or otherwise and in having them instructed for

their new condition in the duties of morality which may make them

good neighbours good fathers or moders, husbands or vives [sic] and in their

duties as citizens, teaching them to be defenders of their Liberty and Country

and of the good order of society, and in whatsoever may make them happy

and useful, and I the said Thomas Jefferson my executor of this

5th day of May 1798 T.Kosciuszko”

At a Circuit Court held for Albemarle County the 12th day of May 1819

This Instrument of writing purporting to be the last

will and Testament of Thaddeus Kosciuszko deceased was produced into

Court & satisfactory proof being produced of its being written entirely in

the hand writing of the said Thaddeus Kosciuszko the same is ordered, and

thereupon Thomas Jefferson the executor therein named refuses to take upon

himself the burthen of the execution of the said Will

Teste.

John Carr C.C.

By: Krista Vessell

Krista Vessell — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:25:41 +0000

Oh my gosh…had no idea this conversation I’m having would turn into an argument in which the other person is trying to DEFEND Jefferson’s statements! In his own words regarding what Jefferson wrote about blacks in “Notes on the State of Virginia”: “All of those observations, both good and bad, are not sentiments; they are universal truths, most of which are still self-evident today!”

*Facepalm*!!!!!!

By: TexasHistorian

TexasHistorian — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:25:41 +0000

Great work Krista! Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jack Rakove’s cites the same information about Jefferson from his Notes on the Stare if Virginia in his book “Revolutionaries”

By: TxHistoryProf

TxHistoryProf — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:25:41 +0000

Krista,

What did he mean?