Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial?

[Brad De Long]

>Re Paul's:  "This whole discussion of Jefferson seems to me to smack of
>presentism.
>We can't judge Jefferson's thoughts and actions by present day
>standards, we have to judge him within the context of his day."
>
>I will not yield one centimeter on my assertion that Jefferson was an
>utter fraud and a scoundrel and deserves no place whatsoever in any
>leftist pantheon.  But Paul raises an interesting question.  Does anyone
>know how many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence owned
>slaves?  What were the views of, say, John Adams on the morality of
>slavery?
>
>Carl Remick

His son John Quincy Adams used his perch in the House of Representatives to
wage a prolonged guerrilla campaign against slavery...

Brad DeLong