Jefferson believed that the most virtues and loyal people to the government were farmers. Jefferson says that when people are in a big city people go crazy and become corrupt from one another, he believes that is what happened in Europe. This was interesting to me because I feel like farmers and people out of the city don't care as much about government because they are not exposed to it every day like people in big cities are. So of course people don't have a whole lot of bad things to say about the government if they are not exposed to it every day and hearing the negativity of it every day like those in big cities.
Also in this chapter we read about one of Jeffersons slaves Sally Hemings who is rumored to be Jeffersons mistress. I had never heard anything like this about Jefferson before so it was kind of shocking to me that in a time of slavery and serious racism that a powerful leader would involve himself with a women of color. There is no evidence of it being true but if it is that would be very shocking.
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