https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

“Slave manacles used at Monticello – Smithsonian Museum of American History – 2012-05-15” by Tim Evanson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Jefferson Community College’s namesake both owned slaves and believed in both breeding them and breeding with them in order to increase his profit margins.  Learn more in this 2012 Smithsonian article–hardly a radical publication.  What does it say, too, that the article’s title reproduces the racially coded stereotypes (i.e., “dark side”)?

So if we had called this The Jefferson Anthology of African American Literature, what conversations about race might that begin?