Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not cover any Indigenous peoples, or White women, or Black folks with the grace of liberty. Jefferson wrote, “We… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image