📚 4 Books mentioned in "Part Four: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites | BEHIND THE BASTARDS" of Behind the Bastards

Yeah, they wrote his life the way he wrote the Bible.

The hosts draw a comparison between Thomas Jefferson's selective recounting of history, especially in terms of slave labor, and the way Jefferson reportedly edited the Bible, omitting parts that didn't suit his narrative.

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Now, Banneker was an early mathematician, and he was in fact so able at mathematics that by the late 1700s he had a popular almanac that Jefferson and many other Americans used.

The host mentions Banneker's Almanac, highlighting Benjamin Banneker's exceptional mathematical abilities and the popularity of his almanac in the late 1700s, as even Thomas Jefferson and others relied on it.

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In his farm book, Jefferson writes this to describe the standard plan for the children born into his property: Quote, 'Children till 10 years old to serve as nurses; from 10 to 16 the boys make nails, the girls spin, and at 16 go into the ground or learn trades.'

The host discusses Jefferson's 'farm book' to highlight his treatment of enslaved people as property and the rigorous labor expectations placed upon enslaved children.

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So back during his years in France, when he had written Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson had written at length his belief that black people were not mentally capable of being free.

The host discusses 'Notes on the State of Virginia' by Thomas Jefferson, highlighting how it reveals Jefferson's racist beliefs about the mental capabilities of Black people.

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But a few years earlier, right after he'd finished Notes on the State of Virginia, he sold one of the women he owned to a white man with the understanding that she would be freed by him and they would live as husband and wife.

The mention of 'Notes on the State of Virginia' emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's contradictions. Despite expressing certain ideals in the book, Jefferson's actions, such as selling an enslaved woman with conditions for her freedom, starkly contrasted with what he wrote.

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And Jefferson, in Notes on the State of Virginia, which is again him trying to defend the United States to France, writes about how these are one of the worst parts of this really cruel, hideous system.

The host discusses 'Notes on the State of Virginia' to illustrate Jefferson's efforts to justify the United States to France, while acknowledging the harsh realities of slavery.

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