American Icons, Hidden Legacies: U.S. Heroes With Slaveholding Pasts - History Collection
2. Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Yet at his Monticello plantation, he enslaved more than 600 people over his lifetime. Jefferson’s advocacy...
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