Clarence Page writes: 'Standing his ground, even as it turns into political quicksand beneath his feet, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has dug in his heels to defend a barely defensible passage in his state’s new slavery education curriculum.'
A statue of Thomas Jefferson standing next to a stack of bricks marked with the names of people he enslaved is exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016.
Curious for another perspective, I called a friend for whom the title of “founding father” has special meaning: Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of our country’s third president, Thomas Jefferson — and one of his younger slaves, Sally Hemings. Yes, it is well known that owners sometimes would lend out slaves who gained valuable skills as craftsmen — blacksmiths, shoemakers, bricklayers and joiners.
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