3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/10/founding-rapist-judging-thomas-jefferson-by-the-standards-of-his-time.html Founding Rapist: Judging Thomas Jefferson by the Standards of His Time
DNA evidence confirms Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, a teenager he enslaved. His contemporary Thomas Paine was publishing anti-slavery arguments the same years Jefferson wrote of Black people's "disagreeable odour" and inferior reasoning, proof the era offered him another path.
— via 3 Quarks Daily, Robert Jensen
