George Washington Was A Man, Thomas Jefferson's A Punk & The History Of This Country's A Fucking Joke

Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M.) Get the money - dollar-dollar bill, y'all:

"From the early 1790s, Jefferson quite bluntly advances the notion that slavery presented an investment strategy for the future. He writes that an acquaintance who had suffered financial reverses 'should have been invested in negroes.'

The irony is that Jefferson sent his 4 percent formula to George Washington, who freed his slaves, precisely because slavery had made human beings into money, like 'Cattle in the market,' and this disgusted him.

And this world was crueler than we have been led to believe. A letter has recently come to light describing how Monticello’s young black boys, 'the small ones,' age 10, 11 or 12, were whipped to get them to work in Jefferson’s nail factory, whose profits paid the mansion’s grocery bills. This passage about children being lashed had been suppressed—deliberately deleted from the published record,..."

I bet it was - my favorite quote about J:

“Never did a man achieve more fame for what he did not do.”