Page 58 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2010

THE SLAVE CHILDREN OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

by Samuel H. Sloan, published by Kiseido,

“Thomas Jefferson had 187 slaves. We know that because he kept meticulous hand-written
records, which we still have. On January 14, 1774, after he inherited slaves from first his mother
and then his father-in-law, Thomas Jefferson wrote his inventory of 187 slaves. In his last
inventory, taken 50 years later in 1824, Thomas Jefferson also had 187 slaves. In October, 1802,
while he was president, the story was published in the newspapers that Thomas Jefferson, whose
wife had died in 1782, was keeping his wife's slave half-sister, Sally Hemings, as a concubine and
was producing children from her. Jefferson, who lived for 44 years after the death of his wife and

who never remarried, never denied the story…”

“God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1Jn.1:5). If we have such examples of darkness
demonstrated by the President of the United States, one of the key “founding fathers”, one of the
authors of the Declaration of Independence, it is no wonder the whole nation continued to condone and
practice slavery for nearly half of the years of existence of this “Christian” nation!

Is democracy the form of government divinely inspired by God, uniquely given to our founding fathers,
or is this form of government taken directly from the ancient pagan-based and evil Roman Empire? It is
the latter as we shall see. And if so, are we to believe that God Himself borrowed this style of
government from ancient Rome and then sanctified it by giving it to our “Christian” founding fathers
(like Thomas Jefferson) as a form of government best representing the creation of a new, “One Nation
Under God?”

BOTH EMPIRES WERE
BUILT ON A TWO-PARTY

DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM
OF GOVERNMENT

ANCIENT AMERICA’S
ROMAN EMPIRE ROMAN EMPIRE

A DEMOCRACY BASED ON A A DEMOCRACY BASED ON A
TWO-PARTY SYSTEM, TWO-PARTY SYSTEM,
“THE OPTIMATES” “THE REPUBLICANS”
AND AND
“THE POPULARS” “THE DEMOCRATS”

“The Optimates and Populars fought each other as America’s Republicans and Democrats. Rome had
its political machines , its Tammany bosses – men like Publius Cethegus who knew how to manipulate

elections and made full use of caucuses, patronage, and the spoils system.”
(The Coming Caesars” pg. 152)

BOTH GOVERNMENTS
WERE BASED ON
SPECIFIC LAWS

ANCIENT AMERICA’S
ROMAN EMPIRE ROMAN EMPIRE

“The rule of abstract principles – the rule of law – Rome’s Twelve Tables, and America’s Constitution

are the major premises on which Roman and American politics were built.

Rome’s Political conflicts took place within the framework of these accepted institutions America’s
TWELVE (Rome’s Twelve Tables, America’s Constitution)… Interpretation of these CONSTI-
TABLES TUTION
principles of law were hotly debated in the higher courts of law…(the Roman
Senate and the Supreme Court) (The Coming Caesars” pg. 78)