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October 20, 2012 12:46 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ReyNm0imwvc/thomas-jefferson-not.html
Thomas Jefferson: not an enthusiastic, brutal slaver
Wagner James Au writes, "Annette Gordon-Reed, a Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning, African-American academic at Harvard, has a brutal takedown of the new Jefferson biography by Henry Wiencek mentioned last month in Boing Boing which purports to prove Jefferson was a brutal slave owner. According to Gordon-Reed, Wiencek's citations are highly misleading. Sample:" He then [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ReyNm0imwvc/thomas-jefferson-not.html
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