Recommendable! What Dinesh D’Souza failed to mention is how did Jefferson treat his slaves and how many did he release in his will and why he did not release more of his slaves!
He also did not mention Jefferson's affair with one of his female slaves, Sally Hemingway. He fathered six children with her.
"... Sally Hemings worked for two and a half years (1787-89) in Paris as a domestic servant and maid in Jefferson’s household. While in Paris, where she was free, she negotiated with Jefferson to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Decades later, Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings’s children – Beverly and Harriet left Monticello in the early 1820s; Madison and Eston were freed in his will and left Monticello in 1826. Jefferson did not grant freedom to any other enslaved family unit."
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