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Behind the Bastards
The book discusses the upbringing of Jefferson and his enslaved companion, Jupiter, who was raised alongside him as his servant.
In the book Master of the Mountain, Henry Winesick writes he had grown up with Jupiter, born at Shadwell the same year as he.
— Episode: Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypo...
Episode: Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
The book discusses the upbringing of Jefferson and his enslaved companion, Jupiter, who was raised alongside him as his servant.
In the book Master of the Mountain, Henry Winesick writes he had grown up with Jupiter, born at Shadwell the same year as he.
After the Civil War, visiting Northerner astonished at the story she had heard, asked a former slave how he could risk his life for the family that enslaved him.
The answer was that the slaves had not lost a sense of common humanity.
Often we left our own wives and children during the war in order to take care of the wives and children of our absent masters.
And why did we do this? Because they were helpless and afraid, while our families were better able to take care of themselves and had no fear when they saw their oppressors stricken with fear.
They did not rise up in vengeance, but offered help.
When Jefferson courted the beautiful Martha Wales, she he spent evenings by the fire with her father, old John, who undoubtedly talked business with the young suitor, discoursing on slaves in the peaks and valleys in the market for them.