re: #529 Cato the Elder

That is interesting indeed. But how does it square with Jefferson’s own slave holding?

I think he was worried about the future more than the present. He didn’t want slavery to be a foundational right of the new republic… he saw it as a shameful, but temporary necessity. He freed his slaves upon his death, if memory serves.

A bit late, to be sure… even founding fathers can have feet of clay.