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March 28, 1862
Bellows Falls Times
Bellows Falls, Windham County, Vermont
What is this article about?
Reminiscences from Captain Edmund Bacon, Jefferson's long-time overseer at Monticello, reveal Thomas Jefferson's deep aversion to slavery, describing him as a kind master who predicted the troubles it would cause, as detailed in a newly published New York work.
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Jefferson on Slavery.—A work giving some reminiscences of Jefferson, derived from Captain Edmund Bacon, who was for twenty years the chief overseer and business manager of Jefferson's estate at Monticello, and is still living in Kentucky, has just been published in New York. From this work we extract the following paragraph, which adds to the already abundant evidence we have of Jefferson's aversion to slavery :—
"No servants ever had a kinder master than Mr. Jefferson's. He did not like slavery. I have heard him talk a great deal about it. He thought it a bad system. I have heard him prophesy that we should have just such trouble with it as we are having now."
"No servants ever had a kinder master than Mr. Jefferson's. He did not like slavery. I have heard him talk a great deal about it. He thought it a bad system. I have heard him prophesy that we should have just such trouble with it as we are having now."
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
Jefferson Slavery
Bacon Reminiscences
Monticello Overseer
Slavery Prophecy
What entities or persons were involved?
Thomas Jefferson
Captain Edmund Bacon
Where did it happen?
Monticello
Story Details
Key Persons
Thomas Jefferson
Captain Edmund Bacon
Location
Monticello
Story Details
Captain Edmund Bacon recounts Thomas Jefferson's kindness to servants, his strong dislike for slavery as a bad system, and his prophecy of future troubles from it.