I have thought about this and also wondered about the conditions of slaves freed but not given proper funds to really survive or make a good living or any living outside of being slaves, and also not really knowing too much about anything, not having been taught how to read or write or conduct business, it can be incredibly cruel. They would need a lot of training, preparation, funds, and whatever else in order not to be basically forced into surviving through crime or something while a lot of people would likely refuse to hire them or trust them, its just an absolute mess. Was Jefferson also the guy who was familiar with the Qur'an or brought it up and owned a copy? He was also one of the guys who had children with his slaves?
I don't know, in a way, he may have had a point about their release, but then if he thought of them as children or child-like (tarded, in the sense of being slow or backwards due to how they were never taught normal things in a normal way and grew up with major intellectual handicaps due to basically the abuse of being a slave, having their development tarded or slowed and distorted by the conditions and treatment and class level and tasks) why didn't he properly educate them? Or did he?
Maybe he educated some at least. Anyway, the whole thing really sucks, humans are total scum, and to think that it was only just very recently that these things have become at least popularly unpopular, and just a few decades ago, which is AMAZING to think, just a few decades ago there were slaves, and even fewer decades ago there was full blown segregation, and even now there are ghettos and poverty and crime which might be (or definitely are) results of the slave business, the freeing of slaves without proper means or educations, the ongoing racism and maltreatment and stigma, and all the rest, including campaigns by supervillains to funnel in drugs through vulnerable populations leading to lots of addiction and problems, not entirely dissimilar to what happened to many Native peoples as well.
So, usually what I learn from these lessons are that Governments tend to be Monster Inc. type organizations hell-bent on bad and evil decisions that lead to ongoing suffering and disasters. New York is an old city which seems like it has been utterly abandoned, and Montreal as well, trash everywhere, insane people roaming around, crime, hostility, intoxication, and its like everyone is acting like practically nothing can be done, while huge amounts of money and taxes are still paid by everyone and expensive real estate and whatever, but the money is just being shoved into holes apparently because these places often seem utterly abandoned in parts, even though they are world famous cities and popular tourist destinations.
Then there are even more abandoned places than these, where those seemed unmanageable due to their size or age or something and almost too far gone and sometimes seeming almost lawless and terrifying, there are other places like the well known house of Death, Deathtroit, which seem like all administration has just left the place to die as if a nuke went off there or something. Then if someone tries to become a politician to help people, they get shot down one way or another or resisted, and blocked at every turn if they try to make the slightest move forward to improve things anywhere ever.
So, I seem to have an extremely pessimistic view of things, and because of that, I don't like thinking about it. It might be what troubled Jefferson as well, though his world was far more opened (I think?) and not yet so overwhelmingly blocked and far gone as the one he helped create through his (understandable) lack of foresight.
Some places I've traveled to or seen, man, they were like hell in parts, so nuts, so dirty, so lawless and disorderly, so unsafe feeling, people literally howling and yowling and screaming, people getting carjacked (in Chicago) right in broad daylight or their tires stolen and other crazy stuff.
Is this the humans created equal thread? Well, once they come out of their momma, and even before, due to their momma doing drugs or drinking or smoking or who knows what, or some weird medicines they were taking, the kids come out messed up, into a messed up world, into very widely differing circumstances, and there seems to be less means or services and assistance for some, and for others the world is at their fingertips (and they still end up psycho too for some reason). It should be equal, but I don't really see that it is, from beginning to end.
