Thomas Jefferson: The Hypocrite

Very Presidential with Ashley Flowers

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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He promised his dying wife he would never remarry, then turned around and forced 14-year-old Sally Hemings—whose family he enslaved—to be his concubine. Slavery, a murder conspiracy, his own personal Burn Book… Thomas Jefferson may have been a Founding Father, but he was as dirty as they get. To view this episode’s full list of sources, please visit parcast.com/verypresidential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's subject is maybe the most controversial president in history.
0:08.2	Thomas Jefferson.
0:10.3	Sideying our third president is a time-honored American tradition.
0:14.5	Martha Washington once said that the worst day of her life was when her husband George
0:19.0	died, and the second worst day was when Thomas Jefferson visited her house.
0:25.0	But plenty of people defend him too.
0:27.3	They'll say, oh, you know, Jefferson might have been a slave owner, but he was just a
0:31.7	product of his time.
0:33.5	He might have had personal flaws, but he was a virtuous leader.
0:38.4	And to that, I say, please listen to the rest of this episode.
0:42.9	You have no idea how wrong you are.
0:56.0	Welcome to very presidential, a podcast original.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.
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1:18.8	Thomas Jefferson has a complicated legacy.
1:22.4	On one hand, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
1:25.7	He was the champion of freedom and equality.
1:29.0	But on the other, he kept over 600 people enslaved at his plantation, including some of
1:35.3	his own children.
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