Every freedom-loving person's hero is Thomas Jefferson, who squeaked by Aaron Burr to become President of the United States. The problem is, for the years he was president, he was quite evil. Power corrupts, and all that. He became good again after he finished that role. Let's look at his program for the Shawnee Indians:
Stephen Warren, historian: I don't think we appreciate just how ruthless Thomas Jefferson was as President in 1801, and how ruthless folks like Jefferson's territorial governor, William Henry Harrison were in the period specifically after 1800. The Americans employed what was called the "factory system." And what that was was the establishment of government forts throughout the old Northwest where the government would accept furs in exchange for goods. And it became a way of making native people into debtors of the United States. And when Thomas Jefferson becomes President, in his first term he writes William Henry Harrison and says, you know, essentially, "Through the factory system, native people will incur debts beyond what they are willing to pay, and they will only be able to pay those back through a cession of lands."
This is exactly the practice, employ usury to destroy a people. Please feel free to share this post with three of your friends.
Stephen Warren, historian: I don't think we appreciate just how ruthless Thomas Jefferson was as President in 1801, and how ruthless folks like Jefferson's territorial governor, William Henry Harrison were in the period specifically after 1800. The Americans employed what was called the "factory system." And what that was was the establishment of government forts throughout the old Northwest where the government would accept furs in exchange for goods. And it became a way of making native people into debtors of the United States. And when Thomas Jefferson becomes President, in his first term he writes William Henry Harrison and says, you know, essentially, "Through the factory system, native people will incur debts beyond what they are willing to pay, and they will only be able to pay those back through a cession of lands."
This is exactly the practice, employ usury to destroy a people. Please feel free to share this post with three of your friends.
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