Pls do not mislead other readers.....
THOMAS JEFFERSON is a quite controversial character in US history...
He wrote all men are created equally. Meanwhile, he refused to free his slaves. He had a sex-relationship with one of his slaves for a long time. He even had a son with that slave. However, he enslaved his son and his son's mother. In his family record, his son, his son's mother and other slaves, were listed as assets as cows and horses.
He personally invented and involved a lot of ugly personal attacking to his political opponents on newspapers, even including George Washington.
But above, he wrote the most important sentence in Declaration of Independence. He set up the democracy model of US government.
He is a a big guy, but far away from a saint. Compare to the founding fathers of US, he is not even close to Benjamin Franklin, who in his last year of life, still fought for the freedom of slaves.....
THOMAS JEFFERSON is a quite controversial character in US history...
He wrote all men are created equally. Meanwhile, he refused to free his slaves. He had a sex-relationship with one of his slaves for a long time. He even had a son with that slave. However, he enslaved his son and his son's mother. In his family record, his son, his son's mother and other slaves, were listed as assets as cows and horses.
He personally invented and involved a lot of ugly personal attacking to his political opponents on newspapers, even including George Washington.
But above, he wrote the most important sentence in Declaration of Independence. He set up the democracy model of US government.
He is a a big guy, but far away from a saint. Compare to the founding fathers of US, he is not even close to Benjamin Franklin, who in his last year of life, still fought for the freedom of slaves.....