‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy
- Posted on July 1, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy
Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding
