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Thomas Jefferson’s Secret Plans To Steal Native American Land
His Quest To Drive Native Americans Into Bankruptcy And Take Their Land
“To promote this disposition to exchange lands which they have to spare & we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare & they want, we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good & influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands,”
Thomas Jefferson was sneaky. For all of his aristocratic flair and love of showmanship, he did many of his deeds in the dark, sometimes literally, when he began a relationship with his 14-year-old slave Sally Hemings an ocean away. Jefferson paid newspaperman James Callendar to write negative columns about his political adversaries, including George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, while pretending to be their friends. When Jefferson became President, Callendar hoped to become Postmaster, but Jefferson refused. Callendar retaliated by publishing reports about…
