Lex Anteinternet: February 4, 1824. Thomas Jefferson to Rev. Jared Sparks.

Sunday, February 4, 2024

February 4, 1824. Thomas Jefferson to Rev. Jared Sparks.

The topic was African slaves in the United States, and what to do about/with them. Jefferson advocated for establishing an American colony in Africa.

Sparks was a very early Unitarian minister who had served as the Chaplain for the House of Representatives, and who would go on to serve as the President of Harvard. He died in 1866 at the age of 76, having therefore had a life span which would have overlapped the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War. Fairly typically for the era, he'd been married twice, his first wife having been taken by death when they'd been married only three years.

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