Approximation (from historical records) of the rations Thomas Jefferson allotted to each adult slave

[Nevilledog]

This is Per Week

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Joyce E. Chaplin
@JoyceChaplin1
I ended my lecture today in “American Food” with one of the most devastating images of the entire class: an approximation (from historical records) of the rations Thomas Jefferson allotted to each enslaved adult @TJMonticello

Per week.
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12:44 PM · Sep 30, 2021

[leftstreet]

1. Eewww! Something there has tails

[Hekate]

3. Fish

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. You've heard of fish?

[bluewater]

2. CEO, Entrepreneur, born in 1744

Actually, born in 1743 but that broke the meme...

Thomas... Thomas Jefferson...

[brush]

4. My God. That's per week? No wonder they don't want Critical Race Theory taught.

[czarjak]

7. One of the good slave owners though? Liberty and justice for He.

[NickB79]

8. Many slave owners allowed their slaves to grow subsistence gardens

Which they used to supplement their meager rations

[Nevilledog]

9. Right.....during all their time off.

[StarfishSaver]

12. How generous of them ...

[LenaBaby61]

10. From what I understand ...

That was a week's ration if what I read was correct.

Founding Fathers my ASS. Most were racist assholes. 2,000 calories per meal and those slaves did hard and extremely manual work from sun up to sundown. Should have been 11,000 per DAY but starving a slave wasn't so bad to him. Bet old Jefferson the rapist/pedophile ate roast beef and other delicious meals prepared by starving kitchen-working slaves. Yep, the wonderful 'Christian' lived high on the hog

Like I said, Christian Founding Fathers my ASS.

[dsc]

11. Jefferson never claimed to be a Christian in the sense that we think of it today

for all of his many faults that wasn't one of them.

[LakeArenal]

13. There is no such thing as good slave owners ....

Doesn’t matter if slaves were educated, or treated well all their lives or had gardens.

No such thing as a good slave owner. Forefathers included.

[GemState]

14. Quite an interesting and enlightening read:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

[DET]

15. I Don't Get It

Nobody - especially a servant/slave doing heavy physical labor relentlessly for hours - could survive a day let alone a week over time on a small serving of cornmeal, some fish tails, and whatever the heck that is on the right. They would starve to death, which would be a liability to their ‘owners’. What am I missing?