{"id":1061,"date":"2020-12-17T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/?post_type=chapter&p=1061"},"modified":"2020-12-17T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:14:50","slug":"henry-wiencek-the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/chapter\/henry-wiencek-the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson\/","title":{"raw":"Henry Wiencek, The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson","rendered":"Henry Wiencek, The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson"},"content":{"raw":"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004\/<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Slave\r\n\r\n\"Slave manacles used at Monticello - Smithsonian Museum of American History - 2012-05-15\"<\/a> by Tim Evanson<\/a> is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 <\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\nJefferson Community College's namesake both owned slaves and believed in both breeding them and breeding with them in order to increase his profit margins.\u00a0 Learn more in this 2012 Smithsonian <\/em>article--hardly a radical publication.\u00a0 What does it say, too, that the article's title reproduces the racially coded stereotypes (i.e., \"dark side\")?\r\n\r\nSo if we had called this The Jefferson Anthology of African American Literature<\/em>, what conversations about race might that begin?","rendered":"

https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Slave manacles used at Monticello – Smithsonian Museum of American History – 2012-05-15”<\/a> by Tim Evanson<\/a> is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Learn more in this 2012 Smithsonian <\/em>article–hardly a radical publication.\u00a0 What does it say, too, that the article’s title reproduces the racially coded stereotypes (i.e., “dark side”)?<\/p>\n

So if we had called this The Jefferson Anthology of African American Literature<\/em>, what conversations about race might that begin?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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