Yet his description of the real Jefferson is pretty much accurate.
The point, however, is that these , Jefferson's,
were the mainstream white views at the time, everywhere in the world. They were mostly Lincoln's views too! Most abolitionists' as well. Not some creepy hypocritical aberration.
They considered them not fully human, a very very common, if quite erroneous, view.
But it's an issue he does not want to look at that way.
The ' aberration ' here is Finkelman's.
Grandstanding punditry rather than sober analysis.
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