Another side of Thomas Jefferson: he was the icon who drafted the Declaration of Independence ... the man who most ardently championed the fight for individual rights at a time when such notions were singed with controversy. And yet ...

The Humanist | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

As we recall the words and deeds of the man perhaps most associated with American freedoms, we mustn't be ignorant of his unremitting campaign for the proliferation of slavery, his support of French oppression in Haiti, and his continuous subjugation of Native Americans. Indeed, while other national leaders of the time were emancipating their slaves and responding to the irrepressible thrusts of egalitarian rhetoric, Thomas Jefferson was expanding his slave population and erecting special walls that secluded them from his majestic Monticello in Virginia. In 1822--four years ...

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