He was the third President of the United States and held 600 slaves. Thomas Jefferson represents one “the most shameful pages” in the history of the United States, said the New York councilor Adrienne Adams.
Le Monde with AFP
Since the death of George Floyd and the anti-racketing manifestations she has trained, the United States is working to sort in their statues putting in the honor of men with a racist and slavery. New stage, Monday, October 18, while the Municipality of New York approved the withdrawal of Thomas Jefferson’s statue, one of the founding fathers of the United States, planted for more than a century in the hall.
A commission of the Municipal Council has thus unanimously adopted the principle of the withdrawal of Jefferson’s statue. The one who was one of the authors of the United States’ declaration of independence held in its Virginia planting more than 600 slaves and had six children with one of them.
One “the most shameful pages” of American history
The withdrawal of the statue had been asked for several years by Latin and Black municipal councilors, and the statue should now join a hall of the historic company of New York City. Third American President, “Jefferson represents some of the most shameful pages of the long and nuanced history of our country,” said New York african American municipal advisor Adrienne Adams.
The debate on the presence of this statue in the council room of the New York City Hall had been revived with the Black Live Matter movement, born from the death of African-American George Floyd, asphyxiated under the knee of A white policeman in May 2020 in Minneapolis.