Liberty Chronicles, Ep: 30; Anarchiad!--Politics in the Early Republic
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 04/01/2018

Reformist minded and very far from the Hartford Wits, to be sure, but the Jeffersonians were still fundamentally the agents of a different sort of American elite. While these white male mechanics and yeoman farmers made for a more democratic ruling elite than the great colonial landholders and office-mongers, they remained relatively content with driving slaves, dominating women and children, and using the power of government to support their own interests--local and relatively liberal as they may have been.

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