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How did Jefferson do that while not actually being there? Seriously. Jefferson wasn't a delegate at the constitutional convention. He was in France.
by ahh 9y ago
How did Jefferson do that while not actually being there?
Seriously. Jefferson wasn't a delegate at the constitutional convention. He was in France.
- tptacek 9y agoJefferson was a key influencer on the Constitution and one of the reasons (though not the most important) that it didn't included graduated emancipation --- an idea Jefferson supported in theory but believed in practice would, without a program to immediately deport all the slaves back to Africa, lead to a race war in which whites would exterminate blacks.