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‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy
Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding When the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Shannon LaNier will be reckoning with a fundamental contradiction in its origin story – and his own. LaNier is the sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson , the founding father who wrote the Declaration of Independence and became the third president. Continue reading...
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Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding When the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Shannon LaNier will be reckoning with a fundamental contradiction in its origin story – and his own. LaNier is the sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson , the founding father who wrote the Declaration of Independence and became the third president. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian, ‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy reports that Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding When the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Shannon LaNier will be reckoning with a fundamental contradiction in its origin story – and his own. LaNier is the sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson , the founding father who wrote the Declaration of Independence and became the third president. Continue reading…
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