“I then asked him, when it came to determining what kind of man [Thomas] Jefferson was, “of the two things, owning slaves, or having sex with a slave, which do you think is worse?” He said that he couldn’t answer that question. I told him that he had just answered it very clearly. … That has been the hidden dividing line in our discussion of slavery in this country, such as we have had any discussion at all.”
—Lucian Truscott IV
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/when-human-beings-owned-other-human
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