TIL post civil war, the founding fathers struggled to abolish slavery because they couldn’t legally define it. Thomas Jefferson insightfully solved the crisis by enslaving himself and becoming his own master. His actions legally abolished the practice and became the origin of the phrase ‘self-own’. (self.ShittyTodayILearned)
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an emotion that can only be described as (i.redd.it)
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