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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]Let's see ... who owned slaves? Washington and Jefferson, right off the top of my head.[/i] Yes, but they did it because it was the only moral option open to them. The other choice would have been to release all the slaves immediately, before educating them. If they'd done that, then they all either would have died, or they would have been claimed or tricked and sold right back into slavery. Unacceptable. The welfare of the slaves was the primary concern, and the best thing their owners could do by them was to give them the best education possible, and then free them. Exactly what Washington and Jefferson did. [i]And how many of them had out of marriage affairs? Jefferson, again, right off the top of my head, with ... one of his slaves, wasn't it?[/i] Sally Hemmings, and no, he didn't. The kid of scandal wasn't his. Nor was the second kid. Now the third kid was a genetic match, but considering he was born years after the (false) claims about the first being Jefferson's kid first broke into a scandal, it seems more likely that it was one of his male relatives in the area. His brother and five nephews are distinct possibilities. In fact, the only presidents that I know of that had extra-marital affairs were FDR, JFK, and Clinton. Grover Cleavland wasn't too moral, either, but he at least married the girl he (maybe) got pregnant. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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