#1505 Thad's Ten Things

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky respond questions from a listener about the paradoxes and inconsistencies of Thomas Jefferson's life, including his ownership of enslaved people.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners.
0:02.9	Thanks so much for listening.
0:05.4	Before we talk about this week's show,
0:07.0	I want to thank all of you that have contacted
0:10.2	the Jefferson Hour, decided to support the Jefferson Hour.
0:13.9	If you'd like to do so, go to JeffersonHour.com,
0:17.7	click on Donate, there's a bunch of options,
0:19.9	and we really, really appreciate it.
0:22.2	While you're there, you can catch up on the show
0:24.7	and find out what plays up to.
0:26.9	This week, a 10 Things episode with Lindsay Jurinsky,
0:31.1	of course, answering a listener's email.
0:34.9	My friend Thad from Louisville,
0:36.9	sent this really extraordinary email,
0:38.9	basically saying, how do we deal with the basic obvious
0:45.3	incontestable inconsistencies at the center
0:49.2	of Thomas Jefferson's life?
0:50.6	How did he manage it?
0:52.1	And are we getting it right?
0:54.6	But he doesn't seem to have been terribly
0:57.9	debilitated by these contradictions, slavery,
1:02.4	his financial problems, the way he treated
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