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Even a founding father was socially awkward
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Huh. I wonder if he was also socially awkward when he was raping Sally Hemings (starting from when she was 14 years old, younger than his daughter Abigail, whom Hemings was sent to care for), or when he convinced her to leave the relative safety of France by telling her that he'd emancipate her children, or when he was like: "lol u thought" and kept them enslaved for the rest of his life. So socially awkward. Such a quirky guy.
america was founded by slaving raping immigrants
Socially awkward slaving, raping immigrants.
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Thomas Paine was pretty legit. Abolitionist (and I think a believer in racial equality) and not shy about saying so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings
Worth a read, I knew nothing of this.