I found the center meme and I thought it needed some help.

Upvoted. Yes. Unlike the leftist that did the same thing with one on my memes a few days ago, you latched onto the correct issue and illuminated an important point. The leftist that attempted to gnaw on my ankle simply went for a meaningless strawman argument and illuminated only WHY leftists can't meme.

Thanks. BTW I'm a fan of your memes. You make awesome memes.

Thank you. Mostly I just try to make them entertaining at the end after I've begun with the dreary information part. It seems to work as often as not.

Isn't it hypocritical to be against slavery but also own slaves? I mean, if was against slavery couldn't he free his slaves or was the government forcing him to keep his slaves?

I think he bought slaves and then at some point he realized that this was wrong, at least that is my opinion. I'm not sure if there is a better explanation of why he both opposed slavery and was a slave owner.

The State of Virginia had a law that prevented slave owners from freeing their slaves and Jefferson lived in Virginia. Not all states had that law. That is why Jefferson couldn't free them.

This is also why he tried, on several occasions to introduce legislation that would allow slaves to be freed when he was a state legislator. When he was president there was nothing he could do because slavery was a state's rights issue. The states could only vote on that.

Lincoln actually had to stomp on states rights to free the slaves. It needed to be done but it came with a heavy cost. It shifted power away from the states and ultimately the people and put it in the hands of the federal government.

If Jefferson didn't want to be a slave owner, he could've moved to another state and freed his slaves or if he didn't want to move to another state, he could've sold his slaves to another guy but then again that also wouldn't be a better opinion because the slaves would have still not be free, they just would've had a different owner. And yes Abraham Lincoln did have to stomp on state's rights for certain laws certain states were making were infringing on people's individual freedom.

I think slavery would have ended on it's own eventually. New technologies would have made slavery obsolete.

It should have never been a part of this nation. Of the 13 original states, Virginia and Georgia, were the only two states who refused to end slavery when this nation was founded. Had they went along with the rest of the states, slavery would have illegal in this country from be beginning.

We were going to war with the world's biggest superpower for our freedom and we needed to have all states on board or they would have most likely fought on England's side.

There is so much in the history of this nation that is just not taught because it contradicts the narrative the left wants to promote. Like how prior to about 1650 there was no slavery. It was all indentured servitude. The difference is ownership and duration of service. An indentured servant is not "owned" by the master. Much of the indentured servants from Africa were indentured for life but not all. And a lot of people immigrated to America by indenturing themselves. This is how the paid for passage on the sailing ships that brought them here. Those servants worked for a period of time and then they were freed.

When an indentured servant had finished their servitude they were typically given 40 acres of land and a mule.

In 1650 a black man named Anthony Johnson when to the English court to sue for "ownership" of a slave named Casor. He won the case and that changed indentured servitude to slavery.

There were free blacks who voluntarily fought in both the Revolutionary War and Civil War (on both sides).

There was at the highest point about 300,000 slave owners who were black.

There have been politicians in the federal and some state governments who were black.

The left does not want that information to get out because then it would be a little harder for them to create the oppressed/oppressor ideology needed to push Marxism.

Byrd didn't change and neither did the Democrat Party. They're still as racist as they've ever been.