The Presidential Election of 1800: A Story of Crisis, Controversy, and Change. Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark. EXHIBITION REVIEW - Life, Liberty And the Fact Of Slavery - Review. WASHINGTON -- The astounding thing about American slavery is not that it existed -- the enslavement of one people by another may be one of history's universals -- but that it persisted.
It lasted into an era when its absence could be imagined and its presence could become an outrage. That was one of the chilling peculiarities of slavery in the United States: As revolutionary ideas of human rights and liberty were being formulated, slavery was so widely accepted that contradictions between the evolving ideals and the brutish reality of enslavement were overlooked or tolerated. We look back now, shocked at the cognitive and moral perversity. And that is one reason why a prevalent reaction has been to assert that the champions of those revolutionary ideals were hypocrites, including 12 of the first 18 American presidents, who were slave owners.
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