Whenever an American Founding Father's recorded thought contradicts their agenda today, Illiberals claim, that the man was a slave-owning "pig and bigot" (or similar epithets) and his ideas are thus automatically worthless. For example:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylv=3?qid=20101004125240AAFhklI
Under this (il)logic, should we ALSO completely reject and denounce other past slave-owners, such, for example:
. Lev Tolstoy (a Russian writer),
. John Hawkins (a British Admiral),
. Muhammad (an Arab prophet),
. Plutarch (a Greek writer, historian, and philosopher),
. Cicero (a Roman politician),
. Aristotle (a Greek philosopher),
. King Solomon (a Jewish king and a poet)?
iGOD, just HOW was American slavery different from that of Ancient Rome or the then-contemporary Russia?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylv=3?qid=20101004125240AAFhklI
Under this (il)logic, should we ALSO completely reject and denounce other past slave-owners, such, for example:
. Lev Tolstoy (a Russian writer),
. John Hawkins (a British Admiral),
. Muhammad (an Arab prophet),
. Plutarch (a Greek writer, historian, and philosopher),
. Cicero (a Roman politician),
. Aristotle (a Greek philosopher),
. King Solomon (a Jewish king and a poet)?
iGOD, just HOW was American slavery different from that of Ancient Rome or the then-contemporary Russia?