By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most ... the original paragraph on slavery is the phrase "He has excited domestic Insurrections among us," included in a list of grievances against the ...

She had dropped Thomas Jefferson’s writings from the required reading list. "You are in Madison ... Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal.

but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas Jefferson had an illicit relationship with his slave mistress, Sally Hemings, that bore him children. Jefferson ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson ... Though not himself a slave, Banneker encouraged Jefferson to accept "the indispensable duty of those who ...

Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics ...