wiencek said he wavered when he realized how valuable it was. joining us now henry henry win sec. he fought for many years but changed when he realized the financial gain that he had for having slaves borning s born o property. he did lielz but in his younger years he thought of slavery purely in terms of a slave s labor. but in the 1780s and especially in the 1790s he began to realize that the slaves themselves were capital assets and he began to count the birth rate very carefully, and that really began to change his thinking about how
allow it to be taken seriously as a book that tells us anything new about thomas jefferson and slavery, and what it does say is it s a book about henry wiencek with jefferson, enslaved people and the mountain thrown into slavery. she has her argument really is not with me but with mr. jefferson because what i did was simply to quote documents that she and other leading jefferson historians preferred to ignore. i brought them before the public. they re startling. they re ugly. they change our view of jefferson. i didn t like it when i found it. i didn t like writing about it. but there it is. and i can answer her question about loathing jefferson. i certainly don t loathe the man who wrote the declaration of independence. yeah, you know, henry, the basic issue of how do you grapple with major historical figure, a founder of the country